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Paraguay's population is 60% to 70% illegitimate. The women "roll big black cigars on their thighs, and puff them stolidly," but a European woman may be stoned if she wears slacks. President General Don Higinio Morinigo, a young man whose "black hair starts an inch above his brows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colossus of the South | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

His residency cluttered with coffee sacks, Sir John decided that the practical thing to do was to send the coffee to England for war relief. This decision wrinkled the brows of the Foreign Office. In the mysterious East, Kings' gifts are not for commoners. Should the Imam ever hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEMEN: Imam's Coffee | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Roman Catholic pro-labor liberalism and New Dealism came to the Southwest in a big way this month when the new Archbishop of San Antonio sponsored a two-week School of Social Justice-the first ever held in that section. To it went 147 priests, mostly young, mostly from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Social Action in San Antonio | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Wrinkled were the brows of Japan last week. To a nation which figured it had learned all about the modern world from having lived in it only 73 years, the world suddenly presented a puzzling aspect. Japan had suffered her worst diplomatic defeat in years, a flat refusal by The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troubled Tokyo | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Retiring Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes announced that he positively will not write his memoirs. ∙∙ Congress heard that Captain Jimmy Roosevelt was loading his chest with medals, raised its brows, learned he holds the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, the Dominican Order of Military Merit, the Belgian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Washington | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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