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Dates: during 1940-1940
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At 4:30 one steaming afternoon last week in Hanoi, Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux of Indo-China and Japan's supreme penetrator General Issaku Nishi-hara sat down and signed an agreement. It permitted Japan to establish three air bases in Tonkin, the northern province of Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Singapore Flanked | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Well he knew that the British had prepared a reception for his troops as hot as the man-killing sun which danced off his pith helmet. Not without a fight would the British relinquish their airport, their desert training post and railhead of their vital line curling back 165 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Turtle in the Desert | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Dr. Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orphaned Missions | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

U. S. literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tellers of Tales | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

New Mexico's scrappy, white-haired Representative John J. Dempsey, who wrangled the Hatch Act through a balky House last July, found out that there are more ways than one of killing a cat. Behind the well-oiled State machine of District Judge David Chavez Jr. (who sent Dempsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Primaries | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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