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Mount Sinai of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah, a red-clay glacial hump near Palmyra in western New York. On Hill Cumorah, in September 1827, the Angel Moroni handed down the Word to a strapping, 21-year-old farmer-visionary named Joseph Smith, in the form of a book written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cumorah's Pageant | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

"Suzy," the ultra-fashionable hatshop is the same old chaotic monkey house it always was. The floor like a carpenter's shop, ankle-deep in debris, straws, feathers, spangles and silk flowers. Clients sitting mesmerized before individual mirrors, Sumner Welles at last forgotten, while cunning workwomen pull roses or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

This week the speculative blush in paper and foods had spread to sugar and shipping stocks, but without developing a very high color. For U. S. business was as bewildered by the turn of events as any Norwegian soldier. One thing was certain: the U. S. had lost an export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Scandinavia Closed | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the Ribbentrop-Pius talk was unprecedentedly long - 65 minutes. Known results of the meeting: Herr Ribbentrop was : 1) not required to kneel and kiss the Papal ring; 2) did not give the Nazi salute to the Pope as he once did to Britain's George VI; 3) greeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Profound Bows | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Last month an anonymous British cruiser fired across the bows of the Japanese liner Asama Maru, only 35 miles off Japan's naval base of Yokosuka. From the Asama Maru a British boarding party took 21 Germans, judged to be of military age and ability, returning from U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: One War at a Time | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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