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...German Army never talks, never warns. It leaves such things to propagandists and to Italians. But last week it gave a hint how this Italian warning might be implemented. Without waiting for the final cleanup in Greece, the German Army occupied at least six Greek islands: Samothrace, Lemnos, Mytilene, Thasos, Skyros, Melos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: No Pause | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...rendezvous by plane (another pioneer Carson stunt). By the time the Durkin train reached Chicago the Herald & Examiner was on the street with four pages of Durkin pictures. But that was only a start for his Durkin scoop. In the excited hubbub at Union Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi, to the Herex building. Police discovered her whereabouts as extras began to roll with her by-line story of life with the notorious automobile thief and killer. When, at dawn, her story was told, Carson calmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muscle Journalist | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...schools sponsor community work projects: e.g., cleanup campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning to Work | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...result of the cleanup was to drive gamblers to nearby De Soto County, Miss. Tall, smooth Bob Berryman trekked to De Soto, opened the Paddock (dining, dancing, gambling). A rival house was the Shanty. Memphis newspapers reported the Paddock gambling; the De Soto sheriff said he had never heard of it. Last fortnight the Shanty was raided and closed; the Paddock was not bothered. Word went about that Bob Berryman had talked with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Memphis Blues | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Neither amateur nor veteran is Thomas Dewey as a politician. He got through a cleanup of labor racketeers without giving substance to hysterical charges that he was antilabor; fought a bitter campaign for the governorship against a Jewish banker and slapped down attempts to inject anti-Semitism into the campaign; for the first time in U. S. history has made one of the 3,070 county District Attorney's offices a jumping-off place for a major-party run for the Presidency. He has a quick political eye that would be useful in a hard campaign: reading the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Up the Mountain | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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