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...last week told the French Senate and the world that an intellectual revolution had been wrought in the French High Command by Germany's super-Blitzkrieg. The leader of that revolution, tight-mouthed little Maxime Weygand, the new Allied Generalissimo, shot aloft in an airplane from Paris to inspect the churning inferno in Picardy and Flanders out of which he was supposed to bring order, safety, victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Desperation | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...poker with them, driving the locomotive. With his father he visited Brazil and Egypt. He went alone to the Belgian Congo and wrote a report on it so thorough that it earned him ranking as his father's colonial adviser. Later he visited The Netherlands East Indies to inspect Queen Wilhelmina's colonial administrative methods. He prepared himself to unify his bilingual country by learning and speaking Flemish as fluently as French. More self-assertive than his father, he prepared his people for an era of change and modernization, led by him, when he said that the Belgian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...interesting to inspect Victor's possible motives for price-cutting--which is what this is, regardless of what it may choose to call it. First, competition has been giving it some trouble. Victor is quite willing to admit this, and the new Black Label title selections show that it is definitely trying to undersell the recent releases by competing companies. It goes on further to say that the most important reason for the change is, beyond the new purchasers reached, an altruistic desire to bring music to the masses...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

Anyone so desiring may stay after the movies and inspect photographs taken last summer on a cruise to Nova Scotia, and discuss trips taken last year as well as those projected for this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Sophomore Will Show Movies of Cuban Trip | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

Following the reports of scouts surveying the enemy position, the unit will organize batteries, including two 75mm, guns, into effective firing positions. After telephone communications have been established with the main troops and the cadet commanders have calculated the firing data, the public will be free to inspect the batteries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R.O.T.C. HOLDS ANNUAL MANOEUVRES ON MAY 22 | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

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