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...more bitter than the cold was a glacial realization which last week for the first time crushed Europe's capitals, big and small: the Continent was on the brink of a general war which might engulf even the most unwilling neutrals. Two wars-Allies v. Germany, Finland v. Russia-seemed dangerously close to merging and swallowing all of Scandinavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: One War for Two | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Scripps-Howard's Telegram, later in the World-Telegram, when Publisher Howard merged the two papers in 1931. But in all of them it was informal, effortless, personal. A man of tremendous heart and unfailing kindness, Broun was led by his sympathies first into Socialism, then to the brink of Communism, though he never actually joined the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

MOSCOW--Negotiations on Russia's military and territorial demands against Finland came to a "definite end" tonight when the Finnish mission left for Helsinki and the Soviet press warned angrily that Finland is "on the brink of ruin...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

...decided that the Committee showed few signs of intellect and fewer of cooperation, he licked his chops and fell to. In Geneva the committee consists of a single hen-brained Cockney typist, who manages in no time at all to have the whole continent of Europe teetering on the brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Toronto: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...every variety of liquor at every turn, with dance halls and drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Lurid Luren | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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