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...President Pilet-Golaz, the more so because Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter was again allowed to circulate in Switzerland. What the Swiss think the Swiss could do if Mr. Hitler chose to circulate in person through their Axis-surrounded cantons was anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: President Regretted | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Thomas is proud of his varied activities, mum on how much they add to his bank roll. Good guess at his annual earnings would be $200,000. Of this, $15,000 goes to Buranelli, $5,000 to Sherwin. The remainder helps Thomas to run his estate on Quaker Hill in New York's Dutchess County, where he lives with his wife and 17-year-old son Lowell Jr. There on fat rolling acres Thomas maintains a fine big Colonial mansion, two swimming pools, a silver fox farm, a small radio studio, a baseball diamond, a four-piece orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Impresario of News | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Sure I'm glad to be at Harvard", he added, "but I guess I'll still root for Princeton at the Harvard-Princeton game," Willkie said that he planned to take several courses, mostly in English, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Willkie Junior Refuses Comment on Father's Election Chances in Informal Interview Here | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

Japan's own rubber needs (42,000 tons last year) are minuscule alongside the U. S.'s (575,000 tons). But U. S. rubber importers, irked by weeks of being over bid, do not think Japan is buying for Japanese consumption. They guess that Japan, shipping the rubber across Manchukuo and Russia, has become Germany's purchasing agent. Germany, with all her substitutes, still needs 100,000 tons or more of natural rubber a year under war conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Japanized Rubber | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...price of 100,000 talers ($50,000) on his head, sent an expedition, of 6,000 men with 24 cannon to track him. down. Once they surrounded him in the Auasc River valley about 70 miles from. Addis Ababa, but he slithered away by-night. A good guess is that Abebe Arragia has been of no small help to Britain's Royal Camel Corps (now mechanized) ia raids over the Somaliland border toward Italy's supply lines through Giggiga, Harar, Dire Dawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Bush Battles | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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