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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace had launched the most controversial argument of the campaign. If voters even half agree with him he may in one speech have virtually elected Franklin Roosevelt for Term III...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: How to Combat Hitler | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Authoress Sand was by no means finished. Suddenly at 46 she took to writing plays. Her Le Marquis de Villemer was a smash hit. Her anticlerical novel, Mademoiselle La Quintinie, was a bestseller. Napoleon III read all her books, went to the first nights of all her plays his censor did not ban. In 1863 she dined regularly with the Goncourts, Maupassant, Zola, Taine, Renan, Gautier, Flaubert. Most of them admired her as people admire a prehistoric skeleton. But with Flaubert she struck up a warm friendship. His genius was not yet recognized: she urged him to work, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roses & Cabbages | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Richard H. Allen, David F. Barnes, Myrton F. Beeler, George W. Blanchard, Calvin E. Boe, Robert R. Boot, Arling D. Brown, Jr., Marshall E. Carroll, Jonathan Dean, Wakefield Dort, Jr., George A. Economon, Harold C. Fleming, George William French III, Thomas H. Green, Donald E. Greenholz, Richard P. Hall, Thomas C. Hall, George A. Hibbard, Frederick J. Hillman, William J. Houston, Clifton M. Howard, Jr., John C. Hulley, Arthur M. Johnson, Loring J. Larson, Edmond J. LeMoal, Gerald Lenane, Paul E. Marsh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '44 AWARDS... | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

Alfred L. Atherton, Jr., William P. Bartlett, William E. Bright III, Jerry M. Brown, Gregory N. Bruxelles, Norbert T. Byrnes, Francis Henry Caskin III, Herbert H. Caswell, Jr., Robert W. Clifford, Leonard Cummings, Paul F. Delahoyde, Robert E. Desautels, John W. Ellison, John D. Eusden, John C. Faulkner III, Dan II. Fenn, Jr., John W. Frenning, Ralph M. Golfstein, Daniel Gorenstein, Donald Harting, Walter S. Hayward, Jr., Thomas T. Hoffman, Richard A. Houghton, William C. Howard, Joseph M. Hurley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '44 AWARDS... | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

Died. Jean Pierre Clément Marie, Due de Guise, 65, pretender to the French throne; in Larache, Spanish Morocco. In recent weeks many a Frenchman prophesied that 6 ft. 6 in. Jean III would succeed Petain as Chief of State, re-establish the monarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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