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...part of an Anti-war Chest drive begun yesterday to collect $500 for the cause of peace, the Student Union has decided to issue Liberty Bonds in one and five dollar shares to be sold to members of the Union and, if possible, of the Teachers Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. PLANS DRIVE FOR LARGE ANTI-WAR CHEST | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...right off our chest: "The Lion Has Wings" is British propaganda, and does not make the slightest pretensions of being anything else. At the very outset the narrator tells us in a formal prologue that we are to be shown "what the British are thinking and how they feel." Thus, unless you object on principle to other people's feelings, you should not object at all to the Lion making his point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/7/1940 | See Source »

...Novgorod district. By the time Kirov was shot, Andrei Zhdanov, 38, had become a member of the Party's Central Committee and he had the ear of Stalin. No sooner had Stalin made him Party secretary of Leningrad than he proved his importance by getting shot in the chest by a plotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: White Red City | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Winslow gave the Tiger sextet the scare of its life several times on solo dashes down the ice through the whole Bengal team, but to no avail. The Crimson almost scored another marker at the close of the second period when a low puck bounced off Dave Eaton's chest almost into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SEXTET BOWN TO TIGER ATTACK, 2-1 | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...Jack (Freddie Bartholomew) proudly displaying to his brothers (Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn) three hairs on his chest (grimly portending the shape of things to come in Master Freddie's screen career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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