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Commented Columnist Raymond Clapper two days later: "That is a long sentence. But it would become a historic one should we get into this war, for it is the most aggressive call that has echoed from any official source since the last war ended. . . . He stopped just short of calling for a declaration of war against Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Historic Sentence? | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Illinois) tuned in on a Finn-Russian war broadcast last Christmas Day, got so excited he wrote a play in January which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne tried out in March and opened last week in New York City: "There Shall Be No Night" (see p. 52). Columnist Raymond Clapper viewed with alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Debate | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...overoptimistic, Sherwood is militant. His pacifist who, after studying the issues at stake, decides to fight can easily be taken as a symbol: Sherwood might well wish an anti-war U. S. to change its mind as Valkonen did. Although denying Columnist Raymond Clapper's accusation that his play is a plea for intervention, Sherwood admitted that he expected to be called a "warmonger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys Will Be Boys | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...stormy night last week John Seed, still strapped in his cast, tried again. This time he went in by a door, climbed a ladder to the belfry, there pried open a locked door with a four-foot crowbar. With two companions he tugged at the clapper for half an hour, at length pulled it loose. Next day he proudly confessed his theft. Crushed, the university waived its $30 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys Will Be Boys | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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