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Roberts ordered the overcrowded President Harding hove to in mounting seas in the Stygian night of Oct. 17. That he was in the vicinity of the hurricane, he knew. But British ships had ceased broadcasting weather reports, which might betray their location to submarines, and he had no specific reports of the storm's path which might have enabled him to avoid it. The President Harding, now actually 200 miles east of the hurricane's core, was suddenly buffeted by a no-mile-an-hour wind, floundered in a sea which rolled up into a single mountainous wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Tempest | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...claim that to ... sell our merchandise to belligerents would be to risk making entangling alliances is to surrender our manhood to insensate panic, betray the cause of liberty and brand ourselves as a nation of cowards. DELACOURT KELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...chasing Mr. Dies expected the huge over-all total to betray payments from Moscow, he was disappointed. Communist Party units and affiliates are continually making up each other's deficit, have many unsegregated personal and Party deposits. Evidence that the bulk of these Party funds came from dues and contributions in the U. S. was so convincing that the committee lost interest. Yet the Party did not care to have its members know just how much it grosses. In discussing this committee hearing, its Daily Worker in Manhattan printed none of the totals, continued to beg readers to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dimes & Millions | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Practitioners of an inexact science torn by dissension, psychologists are often suspected of having an inferiority complex. If they are so afflicted, they seldom betray it in public. Last week, however, Dr. Gordon W. Allport of Harvard, retiring president of the American Psychological Association, declared that as prophets of human behavior psychologists are not in the running with statesmen, lawyers and headwaiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists & Headwaiters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Snobs who brag of their ancestry betray their ignorance of genetics. Each person receives 24 chromosomes from each parent, an average of twelve chromosomes from his grandparents, six from his greatgrandparents, only one or two from his great-great-great-grandparents. "If you claimed descent from Miles Standish, the odds may be 20 to one that you are no more related to him than is any one else in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When Gene Meets Gene | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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