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...Burton Wheeler's lexicon, "everything" did not yet mean much of anything. He was for rearming the U. S., against letting the U. S. Government arm the desperate Allies ("I would have no objection, but we should be careful not to ... involve this country in war"). What troubled him almost as much was the devious means which Franklin Roosevelt had to adopt: to trade in Army-Navy planes and guns to manufacturers, who passed them on to the English and French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Evolution of a Senator | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...present time there is only one other dictionary of its kind in existence. When completed, the set of volumes will contain material seattered throughout many Chinese dictionaries, as well as many words contained in no other lexicon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Dictionary Being Prepared in Boylston Hall | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...chinned, 46-year-old Lawrence Doane Bell of Bell Aircraft, the Airacobra is a thesis in an aeronautics course which began 28 years ago. He left high school in Santa Monica, Calif, to become a mechanic for famed Lincoln Beachey-the "greatest flier" in many a pilot's lexicon-and for his own big brother, Grover Bell. Next year death came to Grover Bell in a crash, and discouraged Larry left the game. But by the time Beachey was killed in 1915 Larry Bell was back as a mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm was then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Airacobra | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Garner Bloc. Jack Garner's enemies are certainly right when they say he has bided his time. Time-biding is rule No. 1 in his lexicon for new Congressmen, to whom he says: "The only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there, and let seniority take its course." He grasped time's forelock just once, when he went to the Texas Legislature for the single purpose of carving a new Congressional District, an area about the size of Mississippi along the sparsely-populated U. S. bank of the Rio Grande south and west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...lexicon of radio broadcasting controversy means trouble. A radio station's stock method of handling contro versial matters is to give each side an equal broadcasting chance, disclaiming any responsibility for what either side says. Pain ful thorn in the radio industry's side has long been Michigan's broadcasting priest, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whose political preachments are pugnaciously controversial, make many enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Slap | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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