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Sweating, trembling, his face rock-graven, Paul McNutt stood on the platform, drawing the greatest ovation of the Convention; a starving man pushing food away. He drew a carefully typed statement from his pocket, began: "In the first place . . ." but the crowd shouted him down. Up & down the aisles strode Jimmy Byrnes, whispering angrily: "For God's sake, do you want a President or a Vice President?" For Franklin Roosevelt had postponed his acceptance speech until the work of the Convention was done, i.e., until Wallace was nominated...

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

...doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies, radicals, fifth columnists and non-patriots bounced Bible-dizzy but patently sincere Jehovah's Witnesses. At Litchfield, 111., townsfolk mobbed a Witness motorcade, wrecked its cars. Police rushed 61 Witnesses to the city jail, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses in Trouble | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Constitution Means to You," which concludes: "Let us rejoice, we are privileged to drink the living waters of America. Not for us the dark and deadly potion of monarchy, of autocracy, or of socialism. Those Americans who have visited the beautiful city of Washington will remember the apt phrase graven over the doors of the great Union Station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHALLENGE | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones's Relics | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...couldn't quite bring themselves to throw out after the last exam, and which now represent the sole tangible total of a thousand lectures and a thousand hours in the libraries--their college education in final essence. And the name of Harvard, that which they can never lose now, graven on a sheet of parchment and 650 young hearts--that goes with them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

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