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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firmly adopted, seemed proved last week when the Cabinet's most restless and rabidly anti-Hitler member, Winston Churchill, in reviewing the War's first month (see p. 55), called on his countrymen not only to rise above fear but also "above inconvenience and, perhaps most difficult of all, boredom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: First Month | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Defense is a psychological attack. . . . If ... attack is met by attack, the aggressor government is enabled to consolidate its people by representing to them that they are fighting to defend their homes. Such misrepresentation becomes far more difficult to maintain if the attack is met by defense. This tends to weaken the will of the enemy people. . . . This state of mind, and loss of spirit, will develop all the sooner if the offensive cam paign produces no results comparable to its cost. There is nothing more demoralizing to troops than to see the corpses of their comrades piled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Defense Is the Best Attack | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...particularly difficult or disliked undertaking, give more help than is needed. (Mother helped Junior lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

University of Texas' Homer Price Rainey: "We cannot escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Lloyd's of London--and carries around the policy to prove it . . . Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" is selling well and is a very good disc. Incidentally, try anybody on the last chorus who prides himself on being a crack dancer--it is just a wee bit difficult . . . Jimmy Dorsey's record of "Body and Soul" pretty definitely proves Bob Eberle to be the best male band singer in the country . . . "Melancholy Lullaby" by the same outfit is ok, although the Benny Carter version (Vocalion) is better. Helen O'Connell's singing sounds much better. Incidentally, the three items...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

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