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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates had generally held, with Hamilton and Madison, that the true source of security in a representative republic came from frequent election and rotation in office, had agreed with George Mason of Virginia that "the very palladium of civil liberty" lay in "that the great officers of State and particularly the Executive, should at fixed periods return to that mass from which they were at first taken, in order that they may feel and respect those rights and interests which are again to be personally valuable to them." Concurred Benjamin Franklin: "In free governments, the rulers are the servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Sleeping Duty | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...aggressions and panics due to hallucinations disappeared. The hallucinations persisted, but it became easier to recall the patient to reality. One of the cases was a young woman who had been so violent she had to be fed with a stomach tube. She insisted on going naked, flew into frequent rages. A week after her operation she was willing to wear clothes, play bridge, could take walks, talk intelligently. Now, said Dr. Strecker, she spends much time sculpturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Madness, Measles, Metabolism | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...normal schooling, so we won't make any plans which will keep her as busy as she has been in the past." One rumor-that smart little Producer Joseph Pasternak would team her with Fred Astaire-exploded last week, although Shirley, in one of her frequent pranks, had recently paid Pasternak's ace director, Henry Roster, ten cents to make the film. Meantime she is touring California with her mother before entering the eighth grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Treading in such hallowed footsteps came the Democrats last week. Most frequent caller was Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly, smirking in gentle good will, nodding approval .as his gorilla-shaped bodyguards tipped photographers off-balance as fast as they could get set for a picture. Almost as often came bald Frank C. Walker, oldtime White House adviser, white-haired Leo Crowley, FDIC Chairman who became chairman of Standard Gas & Electric (and is the New Dealers' 1942 hopeful for the Wisconsin Governorship); Jersey City's high-collared Mayor Frank Hague; and a long procession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

ESCAPE WITH ME-An Oriental Sketch Book-Osbert Sltwell-Harrison-Hilton ($3). For the first 50 pages, readers may squirm at Osbert Sitwell's mannerisms (which include frequent use of the word "alas"). For the remaining 265 pages they may enjoy his style, which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at times moving. His impressions of Angkor Wat in French IndoChina and the Forbidden City in Peking have an atmosphere such as might now be found in the report of a traveler of the Fifth Century A. D. who first examined the ruins of Babylon and then went on to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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