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...foreign principal." By unloading the Worker on three amiable old ladies, it appeared that the Communist Party might save itself a lot of trouble and perhaps some financial worries (such as the fine for criminal libel recently imposed on the Daily Publishing Co. following a suit by Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the Minneapolis publisher killed by gunmen in 1935). In the reflected innocence of New England respectability, the Worker's editors may be able to carry on their work as usual. That the principal object of the sale was to keep the Worker out of trouble was confirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Three Ancient Ladies | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...President. This Willkie boy had worked as a harvest hand in Minnesota, in the oil fields of Texas, had run a tent hotel in a Colorado boom town, worked as a migrant laborer in California. He had gone to Indiana University, been admitted to the bar, married pretty Edith Wilk, an Indiana girl. He had gone to war in France. He had returned to practice law, become the head of billion-dollar Commonwealth & Southern Corp. . . . Gravely Mr. Willkie listened. Halleck had left out some of the story. His grandparents, nonconformists, had fled from Germany a hundred years ago, political exiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gentleman from Indiana | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...vibrate on the same plane and he speaks to me often," said Mrs. Pressing. "One point, upon which he lays much stress, is the importance of our Coast Guard. His plea is, 'Protect our shores!' " Two famed victims of World War I, Aviator Quentin Roosevelt and Nurse Edith Cavell, have also advised the Spiritualists about World War II, in somewhat fainter terms. Said Pilot Roosevelt: "All will be well for those who keep their mental and spiritual balance." Nurse Cavell materialized in a seance at Fredonia, N. Y., "held up her hands and asked the blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Voices at Lily Dale | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Albert Hines, a young columnist from Bucksnort who likes to write about the joys of bachelorhood, was seated at dinner next to Spinster Edith Berryman (pen name: Mary Ann Jones), with whom for two years he has carried on a feud about a tax on bachelors, suggested by Spinster Berryman. A bridal bouquet was awarded to Miss Berryman (laughter and applause), a sewing basket to Bachelor Hines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter Writers' Holiday | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...potent Nazi weapon comes in cans: propaganda films for the motion-picture screens of South America. So far the Nazis have had no smash hits in their movie Kampf. They have limited their efforts mainly to trying to keep from impressionable Latin Americans such pictures as anti-German Nurse Edith Cavell, antimilitarist All Quiet on the Western Front. Last week the German defense changed to offense. From Buenos Aires came reports that Agfa Argentina* had taken over the Argentine S. I. D. E. company, was leasing new studios, preparing to produce and distribute films in Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Film Krieg | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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