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John Nance Garner was the first top-bracket Democrat to understand that Franklin Roosevelt was not going to anoint and bless any Presidential candidate until the last dragged-out moment before the 1940 convention. Looking over the field, Mr. Garner concluded his chances of anointment were pretty dim; out went his braves to do something about it. By last week they could confidently report back to the Vice President that his complete retirement from public life on Jan. 20, 1941 was a dead cinch, but that with him he might well take Mr. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Farley Takes a Trip | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...that Emerson could look at the world around him--a world of grasping New England commercialism, and of corrupt barons of industry--and smile quietly, bless it, and retire to his home in the village of Concord. His faith was a pure, white flame, and then and ever since it has had a great appeal to youth. But today, in this world of "Grapes of Wrath," Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Finland, its light is nearly winking out. What is there left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/14/1940 | See Source »

...bless you in your bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Epiphany, when Rumanian Orthodox Church bishops "bless the waters," Carol spoke. He virtually dared Stalin to cross the border. "When I set foot on the soil of Bessarabia, I feel I am entering not a country which has been attached to Rumania, but a country which was, is and always will remain Rumanian territory," said the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Carol the Cocky | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...common religion of their fathers and ancestors. The Tiber waves have overthrown and sunk the unhappy past so that on the Tiber shores olive branches are now blossoming out. Today the hand of a Roman Pope is lifted for the first time after several decades to bless [this place] as a mark of peace; Italy looks on and exults; the Catholic world looks on and exults; and even the two Princes of the Apostles,* sitting at the en trance of this royal palace, seem also to exult as if happy to see the dawn of new times. . . . We pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pope to Quirinal | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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