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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intricacies. The lank man in the White House whom a large section of the press, North and South and in England, referred to as a "gorilla" proved himself through four years of heartbreaking war to be one of the ablest and most subtle statesmen in history. Step by step, chapter & verse, Carl Sandburg sets him forth as indeed the merciful, mystic and benign being of the monuments, but as also-and with profound consistency-a hard, circumspect, far-seeing politician and manager of men. Lincoln's speeches and writings were the work of a remarkably pure human intellect, always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...gorilla" in Manchester called Anthony Eden a Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...prissy, amused the laity, enraged the pretty and made news for the press. Last week it all happened again when his latest work, a three-ton figure in pink alabaster entitled Adam, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. In general mass and demeanor Adam resembled an unusually upright gorilla with his fists at his chest and his face lifted manlike toward the stars. The conception was obvious and the execution direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: King's King | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Since starting in business 24 years ago, the Carrier Corp. and its corporate predecessors have set up air-conditioning outfits in establishments ranging from hamburger stands to textile mills, from racehorse stables in Ceylon to a copper mine in Arizona, from a gorilla's cage in Ringling Bros, circus to Texas hotels and Manhattan department stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Uniform Pig | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Gorilla (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the old stage-&-screen shocker about the ape that murders like a man. Competently re-enacted by a good cast, it is made more baffling than its original author (Ralph Spence) intended by the three Ritz Brothers as wacky detectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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