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One old PM obligation which Marshall Field did not offer to assume was Ralph Ingersoll's five-year contract which gave him the reins for five years. But Marshall Field was in full agreement with Publisher Ingersoll, indicated he expected to keep him on and let him acquire some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: PM's First $1,500,000 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Pessimism has been the prevailing note in the Harvard football camp all fall, especially as the injury list mounted, but recent pep and enthusiasm have done a lot to change the picture. There is the growing conviction among competent observers down at the practice field in the afternoons that if...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Varsity Enthusiastic, Powerful Despite Problems, Harlow Asserts | 10/4/1940 | See Source »

Wrote Editor Coghlan: "Mr. Roosevelt today committed an act of war. He also became America's first dictator. . . . Undeterred by law or the most primitive form of common sense, the President is turning over to a warring power a goodly portion of the United States Navy. . . . We get in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War in St. Louis | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

At 7:57 one night last week, after 76 hours of debate, the Senate passed the Burke-Wadsworth Compulsory Military Training Bill, 58 to 31. The Senate had approved peacetime conscription, but the bill provided the biggest burst of fireworks in 1940's Presidential campaign. Morning of the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Fighting Clause | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Showman Rose last week showed repoiters a Rubens, a Titian, an Ambrosius Holbein (elder brother of the more famed Hans the Younger), which he bought from Manhattan's E. and A. Silberman Galleries. The Rubens, a portrait of Elizabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, had been until lately in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Rose Collects | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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