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When Sarah Pizarro, who had been shopping, returned to her small apartment on New York's lower East Side, she told her seven-year-old son Tony she had a pain in her chest, was going to lie down for a moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Vigil | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Pattern. Adding up big names and big figures, Washington found all this more interesting than enlightening. Some said it was because an election was coming, as well as drafts on the Democratic war chest; some said the moves were like a shot in pocket pool, in which the eight ball smacked the six, the six hit the three and James Cromwell dropped into the corner pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Pattern | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Chicago last week with a row of medals on his chest, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., faced the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, including bemedaled Charles Gates Dawes, who did tit for tat at the Court of St. James's. Lord Lothian in his matter-of-fact way gave what he called an honest account of what Britons "think and hope and fear" about the war. He told his U. S. audience that the British Government was not "trying to drag you into this war," but that Britain did look forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Noblest of Englishmen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Died. Humbert Wolfe, 55, actory-looking poetaster and Deputy Secretary of Britain's Ministry of Labor; in his sleep; after complaining previous day of a chest pain; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Netherlands' loud chest-thumping about self-defense (see p. 27), was accompanied by the week's darkest rumor, from Amsterdam: that actually the Dutch, two-faced, have made a deal with the Germans to let them drive across to the Channel ports unopposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Towards Spring | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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