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Dates: during 1940-1940
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One of the most consistent and positive policies of this department for the last four or five years has been an implacable loathing for a Hollywood cutie named Robert Taylor. We have advocated impeachment, abdication, excommunication, even complete abolition. But the time has come for the bugle to call retreat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

James Norman Hall's story of General Cambronne and his reply to the British (TIME, Jan. 22) was told first by Herodotus about an Egyptian general, 2,250 years before General Cambronne thought of it. And I'm not right sure Herodotus didn't get it from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

South. Curious to Northerners was a heady exhilaration that spread over the South despite losses, annoyances, discomforts and downright suffering. There was misery enough in cold cabins, but Negro boys in Mississippi had a wonderful time hunting rabbits with fast dogs and hickory sticks. Off the front pages of Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Snowbound | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Last year James Russel ("Jimmy") Young, in charge of Hearst's International News Service bureau in Tokyo, lectured in the U. S. Said he: "[a foreign correspondent] should have the ability to meet all kinds of people and keep their confidence at all times. If you don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Detained | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Finally General Manager Johnson sounded off. "There are some old boats in the company," hissed he, ". . . who, because they have exalted egos since they have no competition for their roles, would like to be dictators of the Metropolitan. The operatic art and this institution are greater than these, and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Mutiny | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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