Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time minded TIME readers would like to see TIME mind time. Whatever 1939 was, it was not "the penultimate year of the 20th Century's fourth decade" (TIME, Jan. 1). Being the 40th year of the 20th Century, 1939 was definitely ultimate. So, drop the pen, spread the fingers...
His speech was one of the most effective, skillful briefs yet delivered for the Allied cause. It was the sort of talk which earns Britain a reputation for fair dealing and open-minded thinking. To keep its sprawling Empire together Britain needs that reputation as much as she needs her...
The British political world was surprised when Stanley Baldwin suddenly gave him, at 44, the biggest job of the British Empire outside Britain itself-that of Viceroy and Governor General of India. His sole qualification for that job seemed to be that his grandfather, Sir Charles Wood (the first Lord...
Last month, with the help of Horace Johnson, head of Manhattan's Federal Music Project, New York City's musical Mayor LaGuardia decided to bring Wagner to the man-of-the-street. Engaging such top-flight Metropolitan Wagnerians as Lauritz Melchior, Elisabeth Rethberg and Friedrich Schorr to sing...
In 1936 at Buenos Aires, the night before the U. S. plan for a 21-Republic agreement was to be broached, Mr. Hull and his glacial, able, pompous Assistant Secretary, Sumner Welles, sat brooding in their rooms in Alvear Palace. Mr. Hull had decided that some other nation must present...