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...Nazi bombers to Britain started carrying one medium-sized bomb apiece. Everything that flew over Britain now had something to leave there. The Nazi High Command claimed that its submarines, motor torpedo boats, bombers sank more than 200,000 tons of British ships during the week, including the destroyers Brazen and Wren (both admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: It Begins | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...American facilities to justify his crimes against civilization itself." Soon deluged with telephone calls was KHJ, most of them from citizens full of praise for Squelcher Weiss. Then Berlin was heard from. D. N. B., official German newsagency, had denounced Weiss's shut down as "unprecedented and brazen." Hit ler's Press Chief Dr. Otto Dietrich coldly notified MBS that until the episode was satisfactorily explained the Reich would permit no broadcasts from Germany and German-controlled areas over the whole Mutual network with which the Don Lee chain is affiliated. Although MBS frantically pointed out to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Slicker Squelcher | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

That Man in the White House he goes stiff all over, closes his eyes, opens his mouth, and lets go. He believes the way to get rid of the New Deal is to blow the House down. At such times, like the brazen-throated Greek warrior Stentor, his voice is "as loud as fifty other men." Fortnight ago Mr. Taber had one of his shouting-fits, during debate on the Wage & Hour amendments. At one point, just as he let go his full bellow, he almost swallowed the microphone. The resultant blast from the amplifier did something queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: How to Cure Deafness | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...poor old grandma is probably turning over in her grave 200 revolutions to the minute because I've developed into such a brazen individual as to solicit correspondents from mighty Harvard. But I'm a demanding little female from the heart of Texas--curly eyes, laughing hair, and all--and the best you've got is none too good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

Only a really brazen lover of the country could dote on these agricultural beauties without noting the rags and tatters that concealed some of them for many people and blotted them out entirely for others. U. S. farmers had little share of prosperity in the years before the crash. Depression deepened the problem, left farmers carrying into it a mortgage debt almost equal to income. In every 1,000 farms during the first six years of depression, 236 were foreclosed. Average value of farm land dropped from $48.52 to $31.16 per acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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