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Last week, two days before the treaty's abrogation became effective, the Japanese were still hopefully wangling for a renewal, which the U. S. State Department had no faint intention of making. The zero hour rather than the words of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles finally convinced Japan's Ambassador to Washington Kensuke Horinouchi of the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heartbreak | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Governor Homer Adams Holt of West Virginia, faint kin to U. S. Senator Rush Holt, donned old lace and a veil, clutched a large bouquet in a Charleston Junior League revue called Dream of a Clown. Flower girls to His Excellency's bride were former Governor Herman Guy Kump and Walter Eli Clark, Charleston publisher and onetime Governor of Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...wrote on. Through the ceiling-high window, framing the long roll of grass, tired-green now with winter, came the faint honks of the cabs, rolling shoppers home with Christmas packages. Thousands of miles away, helmeted men squinted through bombsights; homeless families trudged despairingly through the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It Shall Come to Pass | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. There are gathered the considered opinions of economists, several big statistical organizations, 130 bankers, contractors, city and FHA officials, realtors, architects, engineers, from 21 cities. Their composite conclusion: 1940 is likely to be the U. S. building industry's best year in a decade (damnation by faint praise), a $6,558,000,000 year, up only 4% from 1939 (1920-29 average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Faint Praise | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...round in little circles. And in California, even Hoover aides and allies indignantly denied that the ex-President's activities were political, pictured him as the intellectual leader of a cause. As for thunder-stealing, said they, the New Deal's thunder was now a low faint rumble far over the hills. But everybody recognized that, whether talking politics or philosophy, the ex-President was spending his time these days with sturdy, middle-of-the-road Republicans-the Homer Bunkers, Frank Fetzers, Art Priaulxs -who seemed to stand not for big business ideas or reform, but for fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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