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Professor Perry's latest book, "On All Fronts," is a composite of impassioned idealism and salty, New England good sense. More often than not the two blend well, and the reader drinks a warming potion of faith. Occasionally, however, the author is guilty is substituting idealism for an unpleasant application...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

Despite Kennedy's bearishness, the Hertz group chose to retain control, putting in a new management headed by bald, pleas ant Barney Balaban, oldtime Chicago exhibitor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount Is Paramount Again | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

After Lewis had decreed a strike of 53,000 miners in the soft-coal fields, after the President had made two mild, well-mannered pleas for peace, Lewis summoned newsmen to the elegant boardroom of the United Mine Workers to hear his great defiance.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis' Great Defiance | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

As the school year 1934-35 neared its close, PBH sent the Corporation an ultimatum; the commuters were to be ejected at the end of the year. With the threat of a lockout hanging over their heads, the Corporation officials gave in $35,000 was discovered somewhere despite previous pleas...

Author: By Charles S. Borden, | Title: Brooks House Bridges Town-Gown Gap | 10/22/1941 | See Source »

After all of TIME'S and the U.S. public's pleas for centralization of defense management, isn't establishment of Supply Priorities & Allocations Board big enough news without splashing the photographs of the blonde secretaries of Mr. Nelson and Mr. Henderson over p. 11 of TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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