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...Secretary of State Hull said a close investigation of Italian consular services would be made by Government agencies. Military authorities disclosed that they were clearing suspicious aliens out of the Canal Zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Attack from Within | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

smooth, seamless hull (in contrast to the overlapping plate hull of a riveted ship) will boost her scheduled 16½knot speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Rivetless Ship | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

When Edward Hull Crump was mayor of Memphis 30 years ago, he clinched his grip on Memphis' heartstrings by refusing to enforce State Prohibition. During World War I, when the Army demanded abolition of the red-light district, the trulls quietly packed up and moved their business to shuttered houses on South Main Street, Vance Avenue, Mulberry Street and thereabouts. In the '305-third decade of his reign-Ed Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town...

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

...nomination, contented themselves with bumbling. John Garner said nothing, mourned the ups & downs of Washington's ball club. Paul McNutt rolled back from a national tour still beating a lonesome drum. Jim Farley shook postmasters' hands. Burton K. Wheeler took a die-hard stand for Isolation. Cordell Hull, as usual, sawed wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Candidates and the War | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

President Roosevelt was the favorite Democratic candidate, bagging 61 percent of the votes. Hull got 24 percent, Garner received 4 1/2 percent and the remaining 10 percent of the votes went to McNutt, Wheeler, Jackson, and Farley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt Conquers '43 Poll; Willkie Tops GOP | 5/29/1940 | See Source »

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