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...windswept palace on a hilltop outside Addis Ababa the Emperor received a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, bulky Hiram Blauvelt, and delivered himself of an interview. The Negus said he was grateful to the British for getting him back his throne; that he was grateful to the U.S. for the help sent in his country's time of distress; that he was glad Ethiopia was joining Britain and the U.S. as one of the world's free countries; that he was still a member of the American Museum of Natural History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Home Is the Negus | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...patrol of soldiers, commanded by an Air Corps officer, appeared at the hilltop home of Premier Cvetkovitch, who had signed the Axis pact in Vienna scarcely 48 hours before. A guard stood before the door. "The Premier can not be disturbed," said the guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Freedom Takes A Bastion | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Last week OPM acquired a new agency with one job: to get a hilltop perspective of the present and future, advise the U. S. how to avoid crooked paths and hopelessly blocked roads. Announced by OPM's production director, John David Biggers, was a nine-man agency to be called the Production Planning Board. Its function: centralized planning of the defense program, long-range planning for the sag that must inevitably come when the U. S. has more swords than plowshares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: PPB | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...high hilltop in Sanbornton, not far from Laconia, is the Steele Hill Farm Inn, a newly remodeled farmhouse commanding a splendid view of mountains and lakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...hillside the pageant was twice repeated to audiences that totaled 35,000. They jam-packed the fields at the foot of the hill with their cars. In the prelude they saw a re-enactment of Moroni's first appearance to Joseph Smith. With trumpeters on the hilltop and incidental music from Wagner and Victor Herbert, the pageant then unfolded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cumorah's Pageant | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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