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Bedtime Story. The White House correspondents, though not unused to being the President's whipping boys, scribbled angrily on their note pads. The President continued his lecture. There used to be bedtime stories, he said, about children who saw things under their beds. That was a very bad habit. When he was vacationing in the South he could look down on the whole Montgomery Ward incident (he raised his hands to show from what a height he had observed it), and that was just what was happening. A lot of people in this country were seeing things under their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Powers | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Habit." Franklin Roosevelt did a little spade work on his own. While White House reporters stared incredulously, Montana's bitterly anti-Roosevelt Senator Burton K. Wheeler walked in for his first White House visit since the spring of 1940. After a 45-minute chat, Burt Wheeler emerged, told newsmen that he and the President had discussed the coming 100th anniversary celebration of Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph.* Burt Wheeler added: "I'm against a fourth term, or a third term, for any President." But diplomatic relations had at least been reestablished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Fourth Gear | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number 58-977, by force of habit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

...Small Habit. In Chicago, Mrs. Kate Poshwinchuk, well satisfied with the police work following her emergency phone call of a year ago, phoned again, was delivered of another baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Impressively consistent about sacrificing breakfast for bed in the morning (and who wouldn't) is the Potler-Price-Provost trio who fall out right after formation. The habit spreads...

Author: By Mids A. E. wulffaert, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/14/1944 | See Source »

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