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...brief moment, Labor beheld the dawn of a millennial day. But the cream of the country's lawyers confidently advised employers to pay no heed to NLRB rulings. When the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act, tories and liberals alike were dazed. Labor's Magna Charta would work. Antiunionism was powerless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Again, NLRB | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Russians would march all night northward out across the ice. Some rode in tanks, some in huge sledges driven by airplane motors. As dawn broke they would strike at the unfortified coast, gripping at small coastal islands, making a landing and trying to establish a foothold on shore, hitting occasionally for towns like Kotka. Hamina, Virolahti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Hammer & Sickle | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...where the superiority quickly tells, and where it told last week in the newest sector of fighting, is on an extended front, along which heavy Russian forces can strike, one dawn at one point, the next 50 miles to the west, now here, now there, unexpectedly. Along such a front the Finns must scatter thinly, and be continually vigilant. The new sector: the northwest shore of Viipuri Bay and along the Gulf of Finland, on a front of 60 miles -halfway to Helsinki. Across the ice of the bay a great Russian sickle swept again & again. It hit some stumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Hammer & Sickle | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...dawn was breaking, she raked us with her shell, But we put trust in the turbines' thrust and our faith in Captain Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Bulldog Breed | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Shot. Dr. Karl Roos, 61, Alsatian autonomist leader; after conviction on the charge of conveying military secrets; by a French firing squad; at dawn in Toul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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