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Loud was the outcry from film exhibitors, labor men, party leaders, but the Argentine Government stood firm. Meanwhile, across the muddy estuary of the Plata, progressive Uruguay quietly passed The Great Dictator. Two big river boats were refitted to handle mobs of Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latin Uproar | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Belligerent Canada has passed a conscription act, but compared to that of the United States, it reads like an excursion ad. Providing for only 30 days of training for each conscript, it calls for about 30,000 men per month, and aims at a maximum of 300,000 trained men...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORTH-AMERICAN AXIS | 11/6/1940 | See Source »

It was hardly necessary for the myopic Japanese to see beyond their noses to realize that their communications, industry and man power were already in the em brace of a seductive war. Coal was short, and winter was near. Rice was scarce. The Government recently felt obliged to reduce the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Finish Japan First | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Several owners of faltboots (folding rubber Kayaks) have already signified their intention of joining the excursion. Also, it is viewed as within the realm of possibility that the Faculty will be represented in the person of Phillippe Dur '35, instructor and tutor in History and Literature, who is noted for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wellesley Flotilla Enlarged by Eager Paddlers | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

Last Sunday night Manhattan's Windsor Theatre broke the Sabbath with a great scalawaggery of shimmying, shagging, rowdy flashing of black eyes and brown legs, a lively wigwagging of rumps. A comely Negro girl led the terpsichorean rout, rumbaing, impersonating Inca and Martinique maids, flaunting a big cigar in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anthropology, Hot | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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