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...against the Crimson in the 51 to 33 Dartmouth victory at Hanover in less than 15 minutes of play; for a long time the actual score was Broberg 10, Harvard 4. The 185 pound star from Torrington, Connecticut simply couldn't miss from any spot on the floor. He rang up six consecutive gift tosses that night without having one of them even touch the rim. From the free-throw line, nine out of ten is a bad average for Indian...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 2/7/1940 | See Source »

...fresh pine benches were too wet to sit on, but drier to stand on than the flooded pavement. Franklin Roosevelt laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Moral Climate | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...vote was moved. The Chamber's division bell rang. A few straddling Liberals left the room rather than commit themselves. The Provincial Legislature then condemned the National Government -aye, 44 (including the entire Conservative Opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH DOMINIONS: Terrible Infants | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...what it wants-it gives the public what it ought to have." As his first official act, the new Minister of Information last week had his "secretary," Sir Samuel Hood, throw reporters out of his office. A few moments later the bell of the Ministry's great hall rang three times, indicating an important announcement. The microphone boomed: "Sir John Reith cannot see journalists." Journalists chuckled at the choice of the word cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: First Act | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Last week the correspondents of Washington went on a speculative spree. As discordantly as the horns of New Year's Eve their conflicting stories of what 1940 would bring rang throngh the wintry Capital, left Presidential booms busting like toy balloons, the paper streamers of old prophecies littering the streets. Correspondents said that the session of Congress would be short and asserted, with equal vehemence, that it would be long. Peering into the New Year they could see through the darkness as far as an election-it will be a lively one, said the New York Times, "in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Decade's End | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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