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For the first time since the city was laid out, Washingtonians were united against the common foe. "Disunity!" screamed the D.C. Communist Party. The Southeast Council of Churches considered charges that Mayor Bilbo is "unpatriotic and un-Christian," solemnly resolved that he be removed. "Vicious," said the National Committee to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Honor Speaks | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

The similarities between Jim Farley and Bob Hannegan are marked. Both are Irish Catholics, both started in politics as striplings, both have a great love of sports. They think that politicking is the greatest fun on earth, and that anyone who isn't a Democrat is incurably benighted. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Another Farley? | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Portent. From Egypt last week came a hopeful ray for another dawn: Cairo turned on its lights, first of the war-benighted cities to do so. From Shepherds Hotel, caravansary for restless polyglots, lights blazed out again on the Mid-East mosaic: tanned cosmopolites sipping gin & limes on Shepheard'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Lights Go On | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Although Freshmen are notoriously unfamiliar with their academic surroundings they are as Seniors when compared with the timid individual who next fall will enter these sacred precincts. No sooner has each poor, benighted lad gone through the ordeal of Board exams than he is besieged with printed matter from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIALLY | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

Then, too, since Poon men are grinds of the first water, probably none of them could tear themselves out of the bowels of Widener long enough to whip out to the West and the arms of La Sheridan. Hence on her shapely shoulders rests the responsibility of showing the shining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN RE OOMPH ET AL | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

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