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To rugged individualist George P. McNear Jr., president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, the President dispatched a final request for arbitration of a 77-day-old strike. George McNear sent back a wire that made Washington eyebrows jump: "Greatly appreciate if you will permit me to present [my reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 2,109 Years Ago . . . | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

The Washington Front is the place where any Chinese offensive will have to start. To Washington last week the Generalissimo dispatched a distinguished Chinese military mission. Its head is rugged, handsome General Hsiung Shih-hui (who speaks excellent Japanese but little English), who has been a divisional commander and Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: China's American | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

"Blondes for Defense" can be criticized mainly on two counts; for its weakness of dialogue caused largely by disinterested acting, and for the overly rugged atmosphere provoked of necessity by an all-male cast. Simple and intriguing, the plot concerns the fortunes of a kicked-around citizen whom the Nazis...

Author: By J. D. G., | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/18/1942 | See Source »

The rugged fishermen of nearby St. Lawrence Harbor ran to the cliff top, lowered a boat on ropes. It capsized. The waves threw men from the two wrecks against the cliff base, some alive, many dead. Rigging a breeches-buoy to the ledge where half-frozen survivors perched, the fishermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Catastrophe | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Hebron's good first line, sparked by Gundy Kirrone, should give the Chasemen plenty of action this afternoon, and their defensemen, Dedo and Marchisio, are as rugged as any the '45 sextet has confronted this year.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 SIX FACES ABLE HEBRON | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

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