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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From their devious grapevine of military information, the U.S. Army on Bataan Peninsula this week wrung a gratifying drop of sap. The Japanese had done so badly on Luzon that a new commander had been sent to clean out the remnants of Douglas MacArthur's little force. The substitute: General Tomoyuki Yamashita (TIME, March 2), bandy-legged, pout-bellied commander of the Jap army in its swift, destructive rush through Malaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Substitution | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...British-American alliance will be supreme, because Russia will be weakened after a long war of attrition that will sap her strength, Sidney B. Fay, professor of History, said recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fay Sees U. S. Supreme After War; Sorokin Prophesies Totalitarianism | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...very natural kind of depravity," there is a definite correlation between James pragmatism and irrationalism and the fascist movement, said Williams. "He glorified the concrete, the vital, the subjective, which are the darlings of the fascistic ectasy." There is a danger that this denial of rational processes may sap the resistance of Americans to the fascistic ideologies which follow the same line, Williams believes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR SAYS JAMES HAD FASCISTIC BELIEFS | 2/5/1942 | See Source »

Mills rushed So We'll Knock into print. In Manhattan it published another song composed that Sunday afternoon: You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon. Excerpt: Uncle Sam is gonna spanky. Wait and see, before we're done The A. B. C. and D. will sink your rising sun. . . . You're a sap, sap, sap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of Thee I Sing, Baby | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...office hang the originals of two creepy Daily News cartoons depicting "Uncle Sap" being seduced by the skeleton-headed harlot "World War II," gifts of her good friend Daily News Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor. Her managing editor, 39-year-old Harold A. Davis, came from the Daily News, as did several Newsday reporters. In the last elections she borrowed the Daily News idea of a "Battle Page."* Her biggest help came from the Daily News's late great promotion wizard, Max Annenberg. Max coached her on all the tricks of the trade, got her a general manager, William Mapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daughter v. Father | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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