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...Will TIME please give me 1) its definition for term "liberal Catholics," 2) an example (not collective). As a life-long Catholic I am familiar with the terms "good Catholic," "practical Catholic," "bad Catholic," but a "liberal Catholic" is news to me. MARGARET BYRNES Albuquerque, New Mex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Sassoons: the late Sir Philip of London, Britain's art-loving ex-Under Secretary of State for Air, and Siegfried of Wiltshire, foxhunting ex-poet. But Cousin Victor of Shanghai is the financial head of the family. Thirteen years ago, fleeing taxes, he transferred some $85,000,000 (Mex.) from British India to free Shanghai, where there is still no income tax. He bought real estate, built the city's biggest buildings, lives in begadgeted Oriental splendor atop his own Cathay Hotel. Lame, cynical, monocled Sir Victor's parties are the gayest in gay Cathay society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sassoon Again | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Died. Chiang Mao, first of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's two wives, shelved and pensioned by him at $3,000 Mex per month for life; when her house collapsed during a Japanese aerial bombardment; in Chikow, China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Cimarron, N. Mex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Home was the word last week, home to Tallahassee, Tonopah, Cheyenne, home to Havana, Ill., Searcy, Ark., Atherton, Calif., Tacoma, Wash., Jasper, Ala., Yankton, S. Dak., Clovis, N. Mex.-home to the 531 communities, hamlets, cities and wide places in the roads where dwell the 531 Congressmen and Senators of the U. S. For debate on the arms embargo was over. And as President, Vice President, Senators, Representatives and their wives, secretaries and advisers hurried home last week, it was plain that few big legislative discussions in U. S. history had ever begun so tensely, ended so quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home Again | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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