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Last week came the run-off Democratic primary for the Governorship. Once more the lineups were twisted unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bilbonic Plague | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week as war edged closer, silencing telephones and cables (see p. 30), in the sombre and silent halls of Europe's libraries and museums communication was at an end too: the wisdom of men long dead was being packed up and laid away in vaults, in cellars, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wires Down | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

New Hero. Having sworn to tell the whole truth, and promised to defend himself when and as necessary, Oliver Naquin in the witness chair produced a hero whom the press had overlooked: Chief Electrician's Mate Lawrence James Gainor of Honolulu. Forty-year-old Lawrence Gainor was on duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whole Truth | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

The Parachute Jump is an offshoot of a practical idea, employed since 1932 by the Soviet Union to help train military and civilian fliers. Today, at Hightstown, N. J.'s military training towers, the Jump corresponds to the first step in teaching aviators to bail out. At Hightstown it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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