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...rap on the knuckles to TIME'S expert in charge of marine signals...
...Deplored "the presumption of those who, lacking authority, strive to determine the course of action that the church should take" (i.e., a rap at the seekers of Catholic political backing...
Observers called the result a rap on the knuckles for President Roosevelt, who had reached out his hand to endorse New Dealer Lyndon Johnson. But it was the first time in three campaigns that Lee O'Daniel failed to win a clean-cut majority over all his opponents...
Correspondent Young lived in Japan 13 years. He doesn't live there any more. One day in January 1940, Correspondent Young answered a smart rap on his door. Outside was a Japanese plain-clothes cop who invited him to visit police headquarters for a brief conversation. There the police took away Young's shoes. "You are not going anywhere," they said. To William T. Turner of the U.S. Embassy, who accompanied Young, they shouted: "The American Embassy people are fools. Get out of here!" But Jimmy Young did not get out for two months. Most of that time...
...TIME'S research department a sharp rap on the knuckles for not detecting that the picture showing outgoing Vice President Garner telephoning from a lonely chair in an otherwise empty office was a photographer's hoax -merely taken in the outer reception room, from which a desk had been removed for refinishing. Actually Mr. Garner removed no Vice-Presidential furniture; the same that served him will serve incoming Vice President Wallace...