Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three demerits to TIME. You seem to have erred in your People item of last week on Wendell Willkie: 1) by stating that Mr. Willkie is "still" the attorney for 20th Century-Fox; and 2) by the sequence in which it is made to seem that Mr. Willkie stepped into the shoes of Joseph M. Schenck after Mr. Schenck's conviction for income-tax fraud; and 3) by quoting seriously Mr. Willkie's laughing crack that Mr. Schenck was "in temporary difficulties...
Truth is Mr. Willkie was never until now the attorney for 20th Century-Fox; he actually was called in not because of Mr. Schenck's resignation but because of the death of President Sidney Kent...
...20th Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it is a rare cinema treat...
Wendell Willkie was elected chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox, but said he had no intention of moving to California, was still simply the firm's attorney. He fills without salary the $130,000-a-year job resigned by Joseph M. Schenck after his conviction last year for income tax fraud, because Schenck was "in temporary difficulties...
Post-War. Equally astringent are Spykman's remarks about the post-war world. "In the first world conflict of the 20th Century," he observes, "the United States won the war, but lost the peace. If this mistake is to be avoided, it must be remembered, once and for all, that the end of a war is not the end of the power struggle. . . . The interest of the United States demands not only victory in the war, but also continued participation in the peace...