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...Ulenmen were shunted out of the competition in the century dur- ing the qualifying heats. Curwen's 54 flat effort was just one-tenth of a second over the qualifying limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE SWIMMERS STAR AT INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Youth Congress meeting until it purged "Communistic elements which, according to the Dies Committee, dominate it." He had chided Mrs. Roosevelt for chiding Mr. Hamilton. He had made public an attack on the Congress signed by Gene Tunney and four other youngish men. And at this meet ing he had promised there would be action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Monstrous Lobby | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...matter of strategy last week they withheld support from any & all candidates, thus gently paddywhack-ing their William Green for cuddling up to Montana's Democrat Burton Wheeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Voices | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...shan ("Giant Horse"). General Ma was no giant (5 ft. 8 in.), but he was an expert horseman. Thin, nervous, explosive, scratching his chin or mustache as he talked, General Ma smoked a little opium for pleasant dreams, woke from them fresh for action at 5:30 every morn ing. Operating in the far north, he organized a fantastic-appearing but formidable cavalry force made up mostly of Mongols and Manchurians, whose feet almost dragged on the ground astride their tiny Mongolian ponies. They wore badges on their arms marked with the English letters K. D., which they proudly said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: General Giant Horse | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...young woman hustled out of her third-row seat and trailing her foxy furs, headed backstage. She was, as most of the audience knowingly noted, darkling Elaine Barrie, the lipsticky, 25-year-old tyro-wife whom 57-year-old John had spanked out of My Dear Children's ingénue lead and into the divorce courts last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Exploits of Elaine | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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