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Ernest W. McFarland of Florence, Ariz., who beat Polysyllababbler Henry Fountain Ashurst to the Democratic nomination, is 45, ruddy, big-fisted, almost 6 ft., 180 lb., sober of habit, awkward but sincere in oratory. A county judge, he drawls, rides well, owns several farms and believes Communists should not vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Faces | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

"Captain Caution", the B plus show, is a two fisted, two-gunned, two-sabered story of American shipping in the war of 1812, a minor American edition of "The Sea Hawk." There are the same devil-take-the-hindmost sea-battles, the same villainous intrigue, but fortunately a little less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

Three of Producer Wanger's artists (George Biddle, Ernest Fiene, Robert Philipp) had painted straight, conventional portraits of costumed cinemactors. One (Fiene) had thrown in a portrait of Producer Wanger himself. Famed U. S. "Primitive" Grant Wood, who sees life steadily and sees it neat, had painted a barbershop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: High-Brow Publicity | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Died. Walter P. Chrysler, 65, locomotive wiper who became one of the three greatest automobile producers in the U. S.; after long illness; in Great Neck, Long Island. Son of a railroad engineer, Machinist Chrysler in 1905 bought an automobile with $700 savings, a $4,300 loan, kept taking it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Luxembourg Unvarnished. Into tiny Luxembourg, whose Bourbon ruler Grand Duchess Charlotte was a refugee in Lisbon, goose-stepped squads of strapping, green-uniformed German police armed with heavy pistols and long daggers. On Place Guillaume (now Wilhelm-Platz) they lined up for instructions from Hitler's new Civil Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: New Gauleiters | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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