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...services from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the colonies. To a Mrs. Norman Cardwell, 45-year-old farmer's wife, he gave the Order of the British Empire for her singlehanded capture of a shot-down Nazi air pilot. Britons devoured her story in the newspapers. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Storm Warnings | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...talk the Nazis used on the Sudeten Germans, it boasts of its "Americanism." It urges all German-Americans to get together to protect their race against the "internationalists." G. A. N. A. also denounces in Goebbelsey phrases Great Britain and its U. S. sympathizers "from the White House down." Excerpt translated from a bit of German poesy recently aired over WHIP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alien Corn | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...over a private NBC radio channel, the President himself was making his Defense Speech to Congress (see p. 18). For five minutes, those of Manhattan's radio audience who were tuned in to WHN heard, not the start of the President's speech, but an excerpt from an old recording. Reason: WHN engineers, fiddling around for the President's broadcast, tuned in on the private channel, recognized the familiar voice, did not discover their mistake until five minutes later when the same voice boomed: "Tomorrow is Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALARIES: Knudsen Objects | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...ancient tradition, the Prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Professorship. At first most of the speeches given were either in Latin or Greek, but today only one selection, an excerpt from Plate, will be delivered in a Classic language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEN JUNIORS, SENIORS SEEK BOYLSTON PRIZES | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

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