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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Bob coaxingly assisted his blind father and 13-year-old sister to pack their bag & baggage, got a berth on a West African ship and sailed down to the Gold Coast. Last week blind Papafio went on the miue (Government Station ZOY) to tell his three and a half million countrymen how the blitz was going on in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD COAST: Warrior's Son | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...midst of all its woes, the British press last week had something to console it: Witty, intelligent Sir Gerald Campbell, recently promoted from a berth as Senior Minister of the British Embassy in Washington to a more important job as headman of the British information services in the U.S., was in London fighting the Battle of Bloomsbury on behalf of better news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Bloomsbury | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...second speaker on the program is Ralph Barton Perry '29, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, whose book, "Shall Not Perish From The Berth," brands isolation as "short-sighted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mumford, Pierce, and Perry to Speak Before Defense League | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

...could be provided by movable partitions, as well as by the present method, and some similar arrangement might be worked out for Pullmans. The roads had been expecting this decision for some time. The rare Negroes who buy Pullman accommodations in the South are assigned "lower 13," a nonexistent berth, for that price have been given a drawing room, compartment, or bedroom-whichever was available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: No More Jim Crow? | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Through his great & good friend Hamilton Fish Armstrong, onetime U.S. military attaché in Belgrade, now editor of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Petrovitch got a berth on WRUL, a 50,000-watt powerhouse, last fall. Conditions under which he agreed to operate were simple: a two-month trial at broadcasting three times a week, with no interference from anyone. Within three weeks, the State Department was advised by Arthur Bliss Lane, its Minister in Belgrade, that Dr. Petrovitch was becoming a potent force in Yugoslavia, that he ought to be aired every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Short-wave Paul Revere | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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