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Over the whole U. S., however, there was not this same rosy, reciprocal glow. In October Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas complained in a letter to Mr. Hull that the proposed Argentine trade agreement would injure the U. S. farmer and cattleman. Last week he got back a restrained but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bombers of Good Will | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Up to snuff are Great Britain's methods of putting her cause in its best light to the rest of the world. While the Germans stumble around with the horse-&-buggy propaganda technique of simple name-calling (Britain's diplomacy is "perfidious"; Churchill a "warmonger"), the British have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: White Paper, Black Deeds | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Modern readers gauge Thoreau's genius by the qualities his contemporaries disliked. His eccentricities, prickliness, perversities, were in fact the Yankee thorns that protected him against the embrace of the Transcendentalists, the fashionable gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Realometer | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Lady Falkland, after her husband's death, imagined that Byron (he had never seen her) was in love with her. She thought the women mentioned in his poems were herself. Her sons, Lucius and Plantagenet, shared her delusion. She wrote: ''Surely I cannot be mistaken! Byron, my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

After postulating that facial characteristics set the Jews apart, that they are "a people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hush-Hush Ends | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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