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Minister Cross's speech hit the House of Commons as it lolled in what one Parliamentarian called "the genial vacuum of emotion" left behind War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha's sudden resignation. Out of the speech leaped one lightning sentence which made the vacuum crumple in a thunder of applause: "At the end of four-and-one-half months, Germany is in something like the same economic stress that she was in after two years of the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Starve Thy Enemy | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Japan's Army has had such an extended jamboree on the vast continent of China that it has forgotten how insular the little homeland is. Last week, after six sudden setbacks, Japan's puzzled militarists were forced to recollect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Navy Week | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...were directly responsible for Editor Walker's sudden resignation. One was Colonel Guy T. Visniskki, a suave, stout, egg-bald figure familiar to the office of many a sick newspaper, who turned up in the Ledger office last November to make an efficiency survey. The other was Stanley Walker himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Return of a New Yorker | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Year hit Hollywood like the last reel of a badly directed thriller. More denouements crowded into the private lives of the cinema colony than had been furnished by any seven days in a twelvemonth. There were one natural, one sudden death, an elopement, a surprise marriage, a bill of divorce, a last testament. In nearly every case the event stirred memories of old, unhappy, far-off things and litigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Adams edged Dunster and Eliot shaded Dudley in two exciting matches by scores of 22 to 20 and 15 to 13. It took the Gold Coasters two extra periods to subdue the Funsters, but Johnny Fisher flipped in the deciding goal in a "sudden-death" overtime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lyford Stars But Bellboys Fall in Inglorious Defeat | 1/10/1940 | See Source »

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