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...Jules Verne. He has discovered a substance called therminite which burns at 6,000 degrees, melts all metals, renders water explosive by breaking it down into hydrogen and oxygen. He has invented a delayed-action "explosive" which explodes so gradually that it can be used on sinking submarines to expel water and chlorine. He has devised a magnetic screen so powerful that when it is struck by bombs it shatters them to fragments. Last week he was back on the air for Chicago's WGN and other Mutual stations after a summer pause, still busy saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Defender | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...California, the undergraduate season last week got off to a turbulent start. As 2,000 undergraduates staged an anti-conscription hubbub outside the college gates, President Robert Gordon Sproul warned his students that when & if conscription was enacted, he would regard further agitation as "interference with national defense," might expel agitators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Defense & College | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

levied on its members for a war chest in its battle with C. I. 0.; 2) surrender of the A. F. of L. hierarchy's right to expel member unions without a vote of the delegates; 3) clean-out of racketeers in A. F. of L.'s ranks. Mr. Green, with the smell of I. A. T. S. E. cigar smoke still in his clothes, considered, agreed to the first two, hedged on the third. At week's end, valiant Mr. Dubinsky led the garment workers back anyway, deciding apparently that he could fight for his third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Voices | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...have no authority to expel anyone," quavered old Lévy-Alphandéry. At that the Socialists, former allies of the Communists in the United Front-next to whom they sit at the Chamber's left-grabbed the four Reds who would not stand and tossed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Seven Minus Four | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...seeking to crush the weak," called for maximum French aid to the Finns, brought the Deputies to their feet shouting, "Long live Finland!" The last three Reds said nothing, but it did not appear that they could stay, even if meek. Vice Premier Camille Chautemps introduced a bill to expel every last Red in France from office - from Chamber, Senate, from national, provincial and municipal offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Seven Minus Four | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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