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Most famed and photographed member of an Eighth Air Force heavy-bomber squadron is not a pilot but a grotesque little North African donkey. Her name: Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lady Moe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...cities police were called out to control queues. On the platteland (plateau) farmers and their families left by ox and donkey wagons the day before, jolted through the night to the nearest town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Smashing Mandate | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Washington private press conference in May Churchill said: "Of this you may be sure, we shall continue to operate on that donkey at both ends-with a stick as well as with a carrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hand That Held the Dagger | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Delhi conference Jinnah had described Britain's Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery, and Viceroy Lord Linlithgow as "pukka diehards still dangling the carrot of unity before donkey-like India." Jinnah had suggested that the country "unite and drive the British out," and asked Gandhi to write him a letter. The Raj, Jinnah said, would not dare to stop such a message. The Raj did dare. Jinnah commented: "The letter of Mr. Gandhi can only be construed as a move on his part to embroil the Moslem League in a clash with the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rose Petals & Scrambled Eggs | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Latest attempt at pinning the tail on the ERC donkey reached this end of the country yesterday when the UCLA "Daily Bruin" reported their University President Sproul picking April 15 and May 15 as the lucky numbers. Sproul, "who has just returned from Washington, D. C.," announced that Seniors and Juniors in the ERC will be called up April 15 and Sophomores and Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Step Up, Guess E R C Date; It May Be Early, Even Late | 1/20/1943 | See Source »

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