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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cordell Hull gave young (42) Thomas Dewey the lie direct: "Governor Dewey is 100% wrong in the accuracy of his statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hull v. the Press | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...Matthias Islands are flat, well suited for fighter and bomber strips. They lie only 625 miles from Truk. Admiral Nimitz' forces at Eniwetok are 775 miles from Truk. Now another junction appeared in the offing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Converging Commands | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...lie within this coral sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: On to Westward | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Pennsylvania's Representative Herman P. Eberharter quietly interposed that he had heard that Jahco's top executives had trebled their salaries. Red-faced, indignant Bill Jack roared back: "That's a lie. I will not profit one cent from this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RENEGOTIATION: 5% Is Enough | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...alike, in the complexities of the modern order. . . . No previous problem has ever made such demands on the highest qualities of both mind and character. It is possible that the world may prove lacking in one or both. . . ." By 1937 his fears had grown more specific: "There may well. lie ahead of us somewhere, like a fog back on the horizon, a period of drabness, sameness, loss of personal liberty and low standard of living. . . ." And he voiced the menace as abiding as the danger of Indian attacks at night in the colonial days he had studied: "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Firm Foundation | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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