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¶ Reluctantly but unanimously gave final approval to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon's staggering budgetary decision to spend on the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force $1,750,000,000 in a single year. Sir John, ordinarily rated a cold fish and long the highest paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

On the Mirror Winchell became increasingly staccato, informative and readable. He developed the Monday column (sub-headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspaperman | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

The King's matchmaker, Jake Koci, who has had a busy time trying to find an acceptable bride for Zog, last week breathed a sigh of relief. "It's fine," he declared, "but you know the monarch of a small country such as ours had to be very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Zog & Jerry | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

In our Freshman year we inflicted on Yale a severe defeat of 12-0. On the Friday before the game the class marched to the field with a band and sang and cheered, which put the finishing touches on the team. Saturday was a perfect day for a game. "Dick...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Just before April Fool's Day last week Orator Goebbels again let himself go: "The Church may have the mandate of God. but we have the mandate of the people. THIS WORLD IS OURS!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Public Enlightenment | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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