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...with the doctor: "Dr. Ley . . . was sitting at the head of a long table slopped with spilt beer and wine, and strewn with cigar and cigarette butts, broken glass, bread crusts and the remains of meals. He was in a soiled brown uniform and his huge, florid face and baldish head were streaked with blood because he had cut his hand on a broken glass and then wiped the blood over his face and into his hair." There is a timely last chapter on the Reichswehr generals. Though more & more under the Nazi thumb, they are still the most independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rogues' Gallery | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...least reason why Ayer got the Army account was because lean, baldish, 43-year-old Clarence Lumpkin Jordan, Ayer partner, knows Army ways. Adman Jordan left Ayer in 1916 to join the French Army, later won the D. S. M. as first lieutenant in charge of ammunition dumps for the First Army of the A. E. F. in France. As a director of the Army Ordnance Association he has lectured big Philadelphia industrialists for years on the necessity of keeping their plants in shape to turn out ordnance, come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Army Account | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...being persecuted here in America today. Although the German-Ameri-cans represent 25% of the voters, our representation in government is far below that figure." Thus last week in Chicago did thin, baldish Dr. Walter H. Silge address the members of the German-American National Alliance. Although the doctor was not on the air, his remarks were typical of the propaganda that the G. A. N.A. broadcasts daily over Station WHIP in Hammond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alien Corn | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...president. Last week there seemed a possibility that this organization might never hold a world meeting. In a Europe dominated by Naziism it would have no place. This sad fact was mulled over in a pamphlet called Can Christianity Survive?, published by a group of churchmen including brisk, baldish Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, U. S. secretary of the Council. Edited by Religio-Political Journalist Stanley High, the pamphlet said nothing new about Naziism's enmity toward Christianity. But with its naked quotations from Hitler, Nazideologist Alfred Rosenberg and others, its German anti-religious cartoons, its cover drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: As to War | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Baldish, pug-faced "Ugly" Barratt has been chief of the R. A. F. in France since last January, when, as a sop to Army chiefs who demanded control of the air arm, the Air Ministry picked him as the best expert on Army cooperation problems. Under him are two commands, Army Cooperation and the Advance Striking Force. One cooperates with the British Expeditionary Force, the other with the French Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: R. A. F. Against Odds | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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