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...handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes, out looking for an honest man, would not shine his lamp in either Alexander's or Stalin's visage very long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...replace Young, G.E. chose a handsome engineer-lawyer (B.S. in engineering from the University of Wisconsin, LL.B. from Fordham) named Philip D. Reed, who went to G.E. in 1926, worked mostly in the lamp department. Today Philip Reed is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Biggest thing on either man's public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and assistant to the president, there to ripen in the hands of Young and Swope. Last week's news was formal recognition of their coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Captain James P. Mahoney stated that the search had widened to all sections of Massachusetts, and that neighboring states had been asked to check damaged cars answering descriptions given by witnesses. Police also requested all garages and repair shops to report repairs on fenders or purchases of head-lamp lenses...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON.) | Title: STATE POLICE SEARCH FOR HIT-RUN MOTORIST | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...enemy bottoms had been captured and 104,000 tons of new British ships brought into service. Convoys for British shipping were now organized in the Seven Seas. Across the Atlantic a series of radio patrols two hours apart was substituted for transoceanic convoys. S. S. Cameronia arrived "going from lamp post to lamp post" as her commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Oh, Mother! | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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