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About 50 polar expeditions ago, Lieut. De Long and the Jeannette Expedition sailed from San Francisco to seek the North Pole. This was in 1879. In 1938-after three years of research-I wrote a book about it called Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...putting hackneyed remarks in anybody's mouth. Your reviewer is finding fault with sworn testimony from a naval court of inquiry and Congressional committee of investigation. The conversation in Hell on Ice is directly, word for word, out of the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...rational and sophisticated age, the devil and hell have become very complicated. The true faith is capitalism. Its priests are lawyers and economists. The devil consists of an abstract man called a demagogue." Last year's defeat of Supreme Court reorganization constituted "a way of taking away from a great popular majority the fruits of their recent victory at the polls." The effect of anti-trust laws has been "to promote the growth of great industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Success & Successor | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...only trouble with it all, lamented the healthy-looking one, is that I don't feel so good. Same here, moaned the one who was looking better, in fact I feel like hell. So together they hailed a passing waitress for a tobacco slip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...spring book season got under way, Commander Ellsberg's Hell on Ice climbed into the best-seller class at Macy's, looked like a sure bet for nationwide lists next month, along with Hervey Allen's Action at Aqnila. Last month's published best-seller lists boiled down to these headliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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