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...problems of foreign policy were both vast and minute. Martinique, 385 square miles, pop. 246,712, was a typical illustration: six months ago a map flyspeck of no consequence to the U. S. people, but now vital. Just in time, the Havana Conference had assembled the machinery to meet such problems: occupation of any American danger point by any American nation; joint administration of such occupied territories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Your invitation in TIME'S flyspeck-nailing department for the brethren to send in their definitions of the word "liberal" and appraisals of its application to Franklin ("The Heart") Roosevelt [TIME, May 9 et seq] ought to bring down on you more echoing bathos than has been heard since the last Fireside Chat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1938 | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...more respects than price and profit. Franklin Roosevelt was its speaker. At its snowy tables were arrayed the immaculate bosoms of Cabinet members, of all loyal Senators and party wheel-horses who had not been sent into the field, of lobbyists to whom $100 is a mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another Crisis | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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