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...Charleston, S. C., last week a group of Willkiecrats announced that they will form a fusion party, support Democratic candidates for local office, Republican Presidential electors. New Deal-hating Editor William Watts Ball, son of a Confederate Army officer, announced himself for Willkie in the Charleston News & Courier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The South Reacts | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...moment's notice to translate a Russian, German, British or French flash and hurry it to the attention of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. One day last week the English-speaking operator was shocked into attention by a BBC commentator. The operator took some notes, then sent a courier to the Gissimo's compound. The report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Burma Dilemma | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Then hell popped loose in the Negro press. Publisher Robert L. Vann led off with a thundering attack on Editor Brown in his Pittsburgh Courier. Manager Roxborough told an interviewer: "Earl Brown has proved himself just another Uncle Tom who . . . would sell the Negroes of America down the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble in Harlem | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Greatest paradox was that the innumerable explanations of the Willkie victory converged at a single point. That point was Franklin Roosevelt. To Cartoonist Harry Bressler of the New Haven Journal-Courier, it was simple: he pictured a triumphant, rearing-back Roosevelt looming over the delegates like one of mountain-spoiling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's gigantic stone visages. More complex was the realization that more than any other candidate Wendell Willkie stood as a symbol of opposition to the New Deal -not to its ideas, to which he subscribed far more than many a Republican present, but as a businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Meaning of Willkie | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...cottage for two, $2.50 to $5 for a double cottage for four - in advance. Trailer fees are 50? for a plot and electricity. Meals at the restaurant, which features Southern fried chicken and pecan waffles, have a 75? top. Motor Courier Aldrich is proud of his big repeat business, says many a doctor, lawyer, U. S. Government worker makes reservations in advance. The solo traveling salesman gets short shrift at Pines Camp. Says Aldrich, "They kept sneaking women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Motels | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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