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...merely as a licensing body, views with alarm its New Dealish tendency to use the power to license as a power to reform. Should Senator White introduce a reorganization bill before FCC goes to work on the publishers, the Commission may find itself too busy covering its own chin to throw any punches at the publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC v. Publishers | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...must have been keenly aware of that fact one morning last week when he stretched a tentative toe into his green-tinted bathtub, while he gazed at his face with its little mustache and flopping hair, as he covered his chin with lather (at the Berghof the great dictator is his own barber), while he sipped his Chinese tea, spooned his porridge and chewed his morning toast covered with a mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: A Dictator's Hour | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...country is about to approach the cross at the end of its rosary. I see on that cross not the old man, not the man who has chin whiskers, with stripes on his trousers. . . . I see through him a young man just pausing on the threshold of his life. I see through him, gibbeted there, a red-blooded youth, the youth of my country, the blood of my nation, the blood of civilization. I look through the old man, Uncle Sam, outstretched upon the gibbet, and I see his son not given an opportunity to be crucified but only given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Togas Clad | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

After taking it on the chin for eight of their ten matches, Freshman Coach Dorson's proteges are working hard to reverse a previous defeat at the hands of St. Paul's. Following this match, the team will begin to prepare for the Yale Freshmen whom they will play exactly a week later on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 2/25/1941 | See Source »

Captain Simpson and company scored a stunning upset over the Big Red team last week 30 to 28, but fell down miserably Wednesday as it took a 40 to 26 pasting on the chin from a taller and more aggressive Princeton quintet...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: HOOPSTERS MUST IMPROVE TO CONQUER PENN AND CORNELL | 2/21/1941 | See Source »

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