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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cross speech had two immediate effects. One was to intensify a Cross-for-the-Cabinet movement. The other took place in the Convocation of Canterbury (a bicameral assembly of the Church of England's clergy, which always meets concurrently with Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Starve Thy Enemy | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED CHIEF OFF THE WAR PATH | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

University Hall, impatient with the Lampoon's repeated excesses, is believed to welcome the chance to place the tottering humor magazine under more complete Dean's Office supervision. College authorities were believed to have turned down a frantic 'Poon request for funds to fight the Sullivan law suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Warns That College Expansion Era Is Over | 1/24/1940 | See Source »

...case. In Pittsburgh, a 63-year-old "newsboy" friend of 52 -year-old Gee heard the broadcast, located him, sick, in a $2-a-week furnished room. At week's end, near-toothless, gnarled Gee Jordan rose on his crutches, spruced up, eyed Florida as the place to end his days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heirs Apparent | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Long has the New York Stock Exchange wailed that nobody understands it at all. Recently it hired Elmo Roper, specialist who conducts FORTUNE'S Survey, to find out for sure. He sampled 5,166 men and women, carefully scattered as to place, age, income, occupation. Last week the Exchange published the first installment of his findings: the answer to what the U. S. doesn't know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXCHANGES: A Little Knowledge | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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