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...Washington did not request Gates to return the corps until 13 days after the Brandywine defeat. There are also letters to prove that Conway and Gates were two of the most respected and able officers in the Continental Army. Cleared of the charge of cowardice after his defeat at Camden, S. C., Gates was second in command of the Army when the war ended. Washington had to exaggerate stray rumors of a cabal to cover up his inability to discipline his own troops, his inability to win battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Washington's Cabal | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Last week Doughnut Corp. launched Donut Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Dollars for Doughnuts | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...trip around Philadelphia and Camden was a political masterpiece. Everywhere the itinerary avoided conservative or Republican districts; everywhere sought out factory areas, Democratic strongholds. Crowds were thick, enthusiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: God Willing | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...CAMDEN, N. J.-A few hours after he accused President Roosevelt of "playing cheap politics with international affairs and the liberties of the people," Wendell L. Willkie charged tonight that the New Deal had accepted the Hitlerian premise "that ours is a dying way of life...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

...great pioneers in electron microscopy are the German firm of Siemens & Halske (TIME, June 6, 1938), and, in the U. S., the R. C. A. laboratories at Camden (TIME, Jan. 9, 1939). R. C. A.'s big man in the field is Russian-born, reticent Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who is also its television ace. His first electron microscope was as big as a hot-water boiler, needed a whole roomful of high-voltage equipment to run. Since then R. C. A. has designed a smaller, slimmer, slicker instrument, whose power plant occupies only two cubic feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smaller & Smaller | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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