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Beyond Tamazunchale the real climb into the Mexican sierras began, but the party was shut off from the incredible views by a blanket of mist. For a time Henry Wallace was a little carsick from the dizzy curves, and got out and walked until it passed off. Up on the plateau the peasants had decorated the bridges with stalks of corn to welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New President, Old Job | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...crouched on tube steps. He explained: "I did it to save her being dragged around to the shelters. She was suffering." While food-profiteering also rose, a new racket appeared, as nifty as it was heartless. Early in the day, racketeers' stooges plant bundles of rags to simulate blanket rolls along 20 or more sleeping spaces in tube stations, patrol them till the evening rush. Likely prospects are then approached with a whispered "I was keeping this place for a pal of mine, lydy, but you can 'ave it-for a bob." Prices range from sixpence in crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Crime Boom | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Having beaten Brown, the Senators abandoned further attempts to keep the bill clean. As the final vote approached, Pat Harrison accepted amendments right & left. Key Pittman of Nevada got blanket exemption for all his friends who are en gaged in mining various "strategic" war materials. Texas' Tom Connally swelled the bill by more than 100 pages with a steeply graduated income tax, to be imposed in case the U. S. declares war. Senator George introduced a subtle liberalization which would reduce the yield still further, and which nobody quite under stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: How Not to Write a Tax Bill | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...parts of London which almost made a poet of that restless German dullard, Karl Baedeker, last week fell under a blanket of wrath. Buildings which were standing two centuries before Berlin was even founded were cracked, gutted, undermined. Names of heroes and works of great memory were trampled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Softer, Softer, Softer | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...possess 285 pairs of pants, 5,000 custom-tailored neckties. It was rumored that he changed his ties six times a day. His conduct was motivated by a great principle: find out what suits you and always wear it. Berry Wall usually wore capes and coats of horse-blanket plaid, high horse-collars cinched with lush Ascot cravats. Sometimes he changed into one of his crimson satin lounging suits to lead one of his chows, always named either Chi Chi or Toi Toi, through the streets of Paris. Though Berry Wall was born in Manhattan (1861), where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Dude | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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