Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personally, I had never heard of Mr. Willkie until TIME interviewed him and put his picture on the cover (I believe) months ago. [July 31, 1939.] Somehow or other that review stuck in my mind as it must have stuck in the rest of the non-political minds of America and when the Presidential question began to be mulled over I guess we all thought of him simultaneously. Maybe it's clairvoyancy - but you, my dear TIME, are without a doubt at the bottom...
...Cartoonist H. E. Homan in the Brooklyn Citizen, it was simple. He, too, saw a non-Republican on the convention floor dominating delegates' decisions: the menacing figure of Hitler. And last week, when the fireworks were over, it was plain that domestic and foreign issues had met on the convention floor, regardless of studied and cautious decisions on foreign policy in the platform...
Indians, meantime, are being exhorted by the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress to non-cooperate with the Raj in all war measures. More serious, the Working Committee, which is now increasingly at outs with Mahatma Gandhi, has exhorted all local Congress committees to try to "arm the people for self-defense"-meaning possible revolt. Somehow or other the Viceroy and the white Britons he conscripted last week must manage to remain top dogs in India. This is going to be harder work than the bird-shooting, garden-partying and ceremony-going the able Scotsman has been doing...
...their entrance examinations. Last week Dr. Jimenez, just in time for the hay fever season, broadcast a consoling item. Allergy, said he, is a symptom of intelligence. On college achievement tests, he found, students suffering from hay fever, asthma and eczema rate five to ten percent higher than their non-allergic fellows...
Applauding the strategy of introducing a tough tax bill now (when the bloom on National Defense enthusiasm gives it a chance of passing), the bill's many non-enthusiasts nevertheless thought the Treasury should have waited longer, studied more...