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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such a wowser as: "Whatever else North Carolinians stand for or do not stand for, immorality by a man in the highest place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...training in the First Corps Cadets, an Anti-Aircraft Coast Artillery Regiment, prepares a man for a commission in one of the most inodern branches of the service. The equipment is the very latest issued. (For a better picture of the equipment and training, I refer those interested to an article, "Can They Bomb Us" by Fletcher Pratt which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

When talking about the war understating Britons sometimes refer to the "little difficulty we are having with Germany," the "current spot of bother" or the "Adolf agitation." Even the fact that magnetic mines and flying mine layers were about last week did not change the tone since few citizens of that seafaring island could be really worried about matters which they felt could be solved by their sailors and scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Life in England | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...manlah!" Some listeners think this hyper-Oxonian voice is Traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart's, some think it is Dr. Helmut Hoffman's, who once lectured on Naziism in Scotland; some, that it is a renegade member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist blackshirts. But most Britons refer to Zeesen's voice as Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Haw-Haw of Zeesen | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

SINCE YOU PUT HARMON ON THE COVER NOV. 6 IT IS ONLY LOGICAL YOU PUT THERE THIS WEEK THE COACH WHO BROUGHT AN UNDERDOG TEAM UP TO STOP HARMON AND BEAT MICHIGAN IN THE GREATEST UPSET OF SEASON. I REFER OF COURSE TO BOB ZUPPKE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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