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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Train, Last Battle. The Japs, landing troops to reinforce Munda, were caught flatfooted. At 1:55 a.m., July 7, the battle was joined with the "Tokyo Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Battle Carriers | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...death are taming and weeding out the O'Neills; 2) Danny is growing away from his feckless family, and Novelist Farrell is busy recording the long, long thoughts of a sensitive boy in Chicago's frustrating South Side. In this book Danny works for the Continental Express Co., takes a prelaw course at night. Later, he attends the University of Chicago by day, tends a gas station by night. He reads a lot, is shy with "good" girls, gets no where with the other kind. He loses his faith in God, his virginity, the grandmother who has raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tetralogy's End | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...divisions in northern Italy busy digging defenses across the top of the boot. Another seven in the south, under Rommel-hating Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, soon may be joining Rommel. An indication that Nazi strength in upper Italy may have been exaggerated came from a London Daily Express correspondent. He slipped into Italy from Switzerland, found "a trifling German army" in the region of Milan. One possibility: Rommel has his troops well dug into the border mountains, is policing the cities with a skeleton force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Still Big . . . Still Good? | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...means all Friends agreed. Some Quakers felt an urgent need to dwell deep upon the teachings of George Fox and other weighty Friends. Some feared that the more Quakers became a force in the world the less they would exert that power which few Quakers would care to express in words, but of which Robert Barclay once wrote: "When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it, I found the evil weakening in me, and the good raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Force or Power? | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...even these devices failed. Last fortnight, the Dai Nippon Press Association warned that "all antinational movements will be crushed." As long ago as last summer Tojo instructed the prefectural governors: "People should not express anxiety and dissatisfaction. . . ." On orders from Tojo, the Government banned all meetings except those it sponsored. The Minister of Agriculture decreed: "Dissatisfaction in the villages must be wiped out. ..." And the Tokyo radio, chiding those who grumbled about food hardships, declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No Rats or Crows -- Yet | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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