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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie snapped: "I say to him, in all seriousness, that if he, as keynoter of the Republican Party, attempts to put the Republican Party on record as saying what is going on in Europe is none of our busi ness, then we might as well fold up." Minnesota's Republicans forthwith presented Mr. Willkie with his first delegates. ^ Wrote Editor Felix Morley in the Washington Post: "Neutrality has no meaning when such a merciless military machine is in full operation. . . . No country can possibly be indifferent ... all those not actually at war, or poised to strike at the strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Turning Point | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Banking Act divorced deposit banking from underwriting; three Morgan partners, including bland Henry S. Morgan (J. P.'s younger son), accordingly split off to form a new partnership, Morgan Stanley & Co. J. P.'s elder son, Junius Spencer, stayed on as a Morgan partner. The foreign loan busi ness was dead; its epitaph the Johnson Act which forbids U. S. sale of securities of governments defaulting to the U. S. Government. Meanwhile Morgan partners were retiring, dying; from the partnership their heirs drew millions for inheritance and inheritance taxes. By last year's end the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Gotterdammerung | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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