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Immediate effect of the Book of Lynch on U. S. infantrymen will be to reduce hours spent in antiquated close-order drill, increase the days devoted to field maneuver. Smart boys will catch on in two or three weeks; chuckleheads who look to left of trees after month's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Handbook to War | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

This maneuver transferred the good-will negotiations from Plenipotentiary Pierson's hands to those of Jesse Jones, who thrives on cold turkey. He pointed out that, although Argentina complained because she had no dollar exchange, she had not yet touched a penny of the $20,000,000 waiting for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Jones Family of Nations | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Aristocrat turned Socialist, Federico Pinedo, Finance Minister in the new Argentine Cabinet, combines progressive economic views with smart financial moves. When he was Finance Minister once before (1933), Pinedo created the Central Bank and the present Foreign Exchange Control, topped off these with a brilliant maneuver: he alchemized a British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Wooing the Argentine | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Black & Blue. From New England had come Major General James Albert Woodruff's Black Army. Spearheaded was the regular Army's famed First Division, screened by the Army's historic Third Cavalry. Outnumbered almost 2-to-1 by the defending Blue Army of National Guardsmen, it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Rehearsal | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

The object of this maneuver was to outwit Adolf Hitler. Large quantities of British paper money arriving in South America, the U. S. and other neutral countries had warned Britain of what was going on. In Poland, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Belgium and France, before they were conquered, citizens hoarded sterling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War of Sterling | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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