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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He never wrote a "masterpiece"-"the sentence was his unit"-but his theory of expression "was that on which Thoreau built, to which Whitman gave extension, and to which Hawthorne and Melville were indebted by being forced to react against its philosophical assumptions." Thoreau had Emerson's Nature solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Masterpieces | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

On the Balkan front Adolf Hitler gave a neat illustration of his Mephistophelean trick of making politicians so indebted to him for their power that he can count on their absolute loyalty. Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture Ivan Bagrianoff was, until last week, in a very strong position. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War Aims | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

President of the Grolier Club is tall, forthright, weathered Harry Twyford Peters, who "works for a living" as a coal merchant, but whose real business is more varied. He is 1) co-Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds, one of the foremost U. S. hunt clubs; 2) leading U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Foxes and Folios | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

And, more than at any time since he had been in the White House, Roosevelt could afford to tell the country the truth, however unpalatable. There was no one he had to please for political reasons, no one to soothe or baby or sweeten up. He came into office this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

The article states that, "The Catholic Church in Germany is indebted to German troops"-with the result that a pastoral letter was written to be read from all pulpits glorifying Hitler and his German troops, if & when the war is won. A further reference is made to the suspension of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 30, 1940 | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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