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...total hold on Africa's northeast shoulder, rid her of a rear threat to further operations against the British in Egypt, Suez, Palestine, the Sudan and Kenya. Also to Italy went the first tangible victory in her war with Britain and a chance for Fascists to crow over a "Little Dunkirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Little Dunkirk | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...reddish nose into it by stumping for Senator Harry S. Truman, elected six years ago by Kansas City's Boss Pendergast. It was evident that Bennett Clark did not enjoy backing Truman so much as he loved clapperclawing Truman's rival-stiff, Roman-nosed Governor Lloyd Crow Stark. Also to the aid of New Dealer Truman went New Deal Wheelhorse Alben Barkley. At a St. Louis campaign rally attended by 300 party hacks and laborites, he conferred the Roosevelt blessing on Candidate Truman. But Alben Barkley was not happy to find himself in the same camp with Champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: That Man Again | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...found the now extinct leftish magazine Social Frontier, was a crony of famed Leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. An inveterate signer of manifestoes for a new social order, Dr. Newlon has always called himself a liberal, still does. Last week he presented his colleagues with a large dish of crow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Newlon's Confession | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...ground-crow during the meet will consist of Theodore L. Hazlett, Jr. '40, Norman Updograff '40, and Francis Johnson '40, After the contest Rodman Glider, Jr. '40 last year's president, plans to join Stacey and other members in a soaring trip out West, while later in the summer practice in the new utility glider will be held at Nashua, New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glider Club Will Send 'Loafer' to Elmira Meet | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

...trying to secure it. From conquered southern Norway his ground troops now pushed northward towards the battered iron port. Nazi parachute troops appeared at Mo, more than halfway up the coast highway from Namsos to Bodo, beyond which 47 miles of road end in trackless mountains stretching another 87 crow-line miles to Narvik. They were hurried ahead to cut off a Norse contingent and some 300 remnant British who, retreating north from Namsos, delayed the Nazi column's progress by blasting and barricading the narrow highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Siege of Narvik | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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