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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This dash of cool water on the boiling oil of Mexican politics made the political cauldron crackle and hiss. President Cárdenas' dominant Party of the Mexican Revolution sent its chief a long telegram urging him to stand by his guns, organized demonstrations in all of Mexico's 28 States. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Confederation of Mexican Labor called on all its subsidiary labor organizations to make a fuss against "Yankee imperialism." Even supporters of the anti-Cárdenas Presidential candidate, General Juan Andreu Almazan, declared for publication they would not oppose whatever decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cool Water on Oil | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Formula. Unlike other fashion magazines Mademoiselle has a collegiate atmosphere. It appeals to women between 17 and 30, and its editorial voice sounds more like the glib chatter of 17 than like 30's cool sophistication. It is definitely cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success in Fashions | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...outfield, Torbie Macdonald turned in the squad's beat record at bat, garnering 10 bingles out of 25 times at bat for a cool 400 listing. Gene Lovett and Les Pitchford, the two remaining gardeners, were disappointing in their performance at the plate...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: Baseball Team Returns From Journey South With Two Wins, Four Defeats | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Learned Insult. It all started about the time that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop returned to Germany early last week after an apparently cool reception in Rome. Conclusion was reached that the Axis was bending. Fascist Journalist Giovanni Ansaldo even wrote an editorial for Leghorn's Telegrafo which contained a studied, learned insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMATIC FRONT: Brenner Pass Parley | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...made $75,000 in his 21st year, was a millionaire before he was 40, made his fame as counsel for the Pujo Committee in the Congressional investigation of the "Money Trust." Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. ("He could always read my mind"), the late J. P. Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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