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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXT OF LETTER FROM THE CLASS OF 1917 | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

There may well be a bigger job to do--for all of us--within the measurable future. The general nature and extent of our country's policy are, of course, proper matters for the thought and discussion of every citizen, now and up to the time when unanimity of action may become a sheer necessity of self-preservation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXT OF LETTER FROM THE CLASS OF 1917 | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Forty Fair | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...vote was bigger than it had any right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Trend | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...debate Mr. Chamberlain gave his opponents a club which they wielded mercilessly from that moment on. Most effective use of it was made by hoary Lloyd George, who rapped out: "It is not a question of who is the Prime Minister's friend. It is a far bigger issue. The Prime Minister must remember that he has met this foe of ours in peace and in war and he always has been worsted. He appealed for sacrifice from the nation. ... I say now solemnly that the Prime Minister can give an example of sacrifice, because I tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warlord for Peacemaker | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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