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...describing F. D. R.'s greeting of "Hello, Grouch," to Secretary Ickes, TIME said ". . . Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...have eaten up our last kopeks. What in the world will Lyonya and I do? I inquired about the letters I sent you...must wait forty-two days, and then file a written request for tracing them. I have no idea where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Editor, I've eaten in three continents and in 20 different countries and I think I know something about eating. My wife and I were both born in Yorkshire and when you make a crack like that you are treading on very thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Pausing outside the chamber of the House of Representatives, Franklin Roosevelt shouted laughingly to Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn't, "Hello, Grouch." Then the President, in a grey cutaway, walked with smiling dignity into a joint session of Congress to deliver his eighth annual message on the State of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Our Children | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...sick of a war which is never won, eaten with worry for home and family. If they try to desert, Chinese fall on them and kill them. Missionaries in Shansi report that Japanese often steal inside mission compounds to cry, or come to the gates to whimper and beg for little comforts. Superstitions are epidemic. Nearly every dead Japanese soldier has on him a charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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