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For the first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Soft Shoulder | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Driving toward his home on the outskirts of Indianapolis, not in a racing car but in his 1939 Chevrolet sedan, he got off the road on a soft shoulder. The car skidded, hurtled off an embankment, pitched out a man who was as well known to latter-day race fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Soft Shoulder | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Circumstances & Cases | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Wrote New Dealer Cummings, whose department has prosecuted many a U. S. citizen for false income tax statements: "The alternatives open to the alien were to remain in Germany and be reduced to a state of penury and serfdom, or to seek another life in another land. ... I advise . . . granting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Circumstances & Cases | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

If TIME really feels, as it claims to feel, a responsibility towards its readers to review books of poetry, may I suggest that its manner of discharging that responsibility is unfortunate? Even omnibus criticism owes the reader a greater courtesy than that of the smart epithet. You have shown, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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