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...Speaker's gavel pounded the desk. Cried the Speaker: "The time of the gentleman from New York has expired!" But thin, grim Representative Mike Edelstein, fighting mad, talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Last Gavel | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Three Federal officers in plain clothes one day last week shouldered their way into a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. To the thin, tall, elderly man who stood inside, wearing a wrinkled pajama coat and a pair of trousers, they said curtly: "Dr. Rieth, you are under arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Unwelcome Guest | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...that it came so early. Unlike the drought of 1930, which came in summer, when most crops were well advanced, 1941's drought caught the seeds before they had a chance to start growing. At week's end clouds hovered over the East, here & there dropping a thin, misty rain. But for many a farmer the damage was done: even a downpour would be too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Wanted: Rain | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...last week Seaman Tapscott, a thin-featured blond fellow now weighing more than 170 pounds, was ready once more for action. A few days after he received his pay check for the 70 days he spent in the open boat, he left Nassau for Canada. There he meant to enlist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAHAMAS: Sea Story | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...great number of nominees, especially in the Sophomore class, resulted in a split of the voting, and except for Matters, the ballotting tended to be spread overly thin in the '43 voting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacKinney, Matters Win Student Council Elections | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

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