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Nursing hurt feelings, Dubinsky next day announced that no official in A. F. of L. had called to ask about his condition, but that Philip Murray and Sidney Hill man had made solicitous inquiries from Atlantic City. Asked whether the brawl would be made a matter for official consideration, President Green said lightly: "That's just personal. It has nothing to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Wars to Lose, Peace to Win | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...blank registration card he had attached a notice: "The undersigned will not serve in any Army or Navy as long as Roosevelt is dictator of the U. S. A." Tomas Godina, a U. S. born Mexican who had registered in Texas and later got hurt in a brawl, died hoping that other good men would not think he had dodged the draft. A Danish-born vagrant in Valhalla, N. Y., a wandering hitchhiker, a speeding motorist in Chicago, were caught without registration cards, held for Federal investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Behind Schedule | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...discussed in Berlin . Few nations bothered to mark the 22nd anniversary of the World War I Armistice this week, an irony made more ironical by the fact that last week's most important anniversary was the 17th of an abortive Bavarian Putsch which was little more than a brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Birthdays | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...Hollander give her a chance to show off her husky voice, and a tight-fitting uniform and some slinky dresses give her a chance to display the rest of herself. During the infrequent moments when she isn't on the screen the show is nothing extra, except during the brawl-to-end-all brawls which serves as a finale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

...Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake of blood, killing for the sake of killing. Even his admirers wondered where he was going to find another experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in Spain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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