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...special reason to hate Editor Powell. Most famed and un-scarable of English-language editors in China, he had been singled out as Jap "Public Enemy No. 1" as far back as the invasion of Manchuria. When they banned the Review in Jap territory, he organized his own underground postal service. When their gangsters attacked his Shanghai printing plant, he steel-plated its doors, went armed. A hand grenade last year hit him in the back but failed to explode. The day before Pearl Harbor his head editorial denounced the Japs for stealing motor cars (including his own) off Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jap's Enemy No. 1 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires correspondents knew very well who the chef de protocole was. They had recognized him as Argentina's famed gatecrasher, Júpiter Roberto Perrusi, a onetime $50-a-month postal clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Chief of Protocol | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...bootlegger, ex-Klansman, ex-Coughlinite and a black hater of Jews, Communists and Roosevelt last week provided the first humor thus far in the Government's crackdown on "vermin publications." Square-jawed Court Asher, Muncie, Ind. publisher of XRay, was defending his weekly before Washington postal authorities, who gave him until June 2 to show cause why his paper should not be banned for sedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mosquito | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Students wishing to know their grades earlier should leave an addressed postal card in the blue book at the examination in each course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Grades | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

Terrible things happen to a nation's postal service when it's at war. Witness the very thick and very official envelope delivered to David M. Little, Master of Adams House, from the Bureau of the Census in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Census Bureau Asks Report On Gold Coast Alcoholics | 1/8/1942 | See Source »

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