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...exhausting the vocabulary of political innuendo at each other in the race for Pennsylvania's Governorship. But last week Governor Martin had Puddler Jim over to dinner at the gloomy, gabled Governor's Mansion. They signed a truce. Puddler Jim, faced with fighting alone, had wandered far astray, looking for votes and support; to Old Guard horror, he had even been making cooing noises at Wendell Willkie. Unchecked, such mavericking might disrupt the Old Guard's cozy desire to send an uninstructed (i.e., anti-Willkie) delegation to the Republican convention. Messrs. Pew, Martin, and Grundy took stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Luck of Puddler Jim | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...fact that in 1918 the German nation, led astray by the lying words of the United States President [Wilson], believed it could hasten the end by a voluntary armistice not only drove Germany into the deepest disaster but was responsible for the present war."-Adolf Hitler in his 1944 New Year's Proclamation to the German People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilson's 21 Blunders | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...walk, or, if need be, march together in harmony and in accordance with the moral and political conceptions to which English-speaking peoples have given birth . . . all will be well. If they fall apart and wander astray from the lines of their destiny, there is no end or measure to the miseries and confusion which would mark modern civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hard, Cold Truth | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...became perhaps its greater master. His universal knowledge, with which only someone of Levin's stature could cope, enable him to sum up within himself all the threads of his literary past, and his genius succeeded in spinning a web for the future, though the reader may be led astray along the way by the maze, and the spinner himself may become over absorbed in the pattern...

Author: By A. Y., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 2/14/1942 | See Source »

...afire while he was attending a meeting of fire fighters. In Madisonville, Tex., the fire department finally found a way to get rid of crowds that interfered with their work. At every alarm the assistant chief drove a spare truck in the wrong direction, led all the fire buffs astray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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