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Last week the draft passed its hand-&-bunting stage, became serious business for the young men of the U. S. Some took it with a smile. First man called up in Cook County, Ill., Truck Driver Richard Rizzo (5 ft. 2½, 110 lb.) posed with his draft board, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Behind Schedule | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Tonight in the New Lecture Hall three members of the faculty, sponsored by the Council, will tell what they know about conditions overseas. Each of them has escaped from a conquered home-land, and each has some firsthand knowledge of what is happening in Europe, not to the armies perhaps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR RELIEF | 11/12/1940 | See Source »

Admittedly the most effective speaker in England after Winston Churchill, Priestley left the English air waves amid a hubbub of press excitement. London papers suggested that he had been squeezed into silence by pressure from Whitehall, which was, they said, alarmed at his forthright pleas for more democracy in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Exit Priestley | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Last fortnight in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas upheld an order of the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors banning a revised version of the MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature, a story of how the U. S. entered and fought World War I called The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ramparts in Pennsylvania | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Despite the Mayor's pleas, last spring Dr. Goldwater, hoping to get out of his commissioner's job, took another, as head of New York's Associated Hospital Service (3?-a-day plan). Until the Mayor could find someone to take his place, he continued to pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Successor Found | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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