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To forestall such escapes, Commandant Manuel Barres and hand-picked members of Argentina's crack motorized "Mounties of the Pampas" worked in secret for weeks, visiting ranches, hobnobbing with strangers in cafes and on street corners. When leaders of the movement had thus been discovered, he asked his superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Putsch on the Pampas | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

With his backlog threatening to choke the fast-growing company, tall, straight-lipped Vultee President Richard W. Millar needed new capacity fast. Stinson has the advantage of a supermodern plant, situated in the Defense Area, hemmed in by the high Cumberland Mountains, supplied with cheap TVA power. It adjoins Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Cousins Marry | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

But at night lighted windows spotted the dark buildings of Washington, like outward and visible signs of the tension within. There was a sense of strain around the White House, where the President issued a proclamation broadening his emergency powers (see p. 9); around the State Department, as rumors of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lord Lothian's Job | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

The Last Appeals. Before this point was reached, grim-lipped little Premier Paul Reynaud turned to the wounded and dismayed British Empire, to the angered, sickened U. S., with final appeals for aid.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Exit France | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Two days after the Free Press incident, editors of Detroit papers got together in the office of the Detroit News with a close-clipped, tight-lipped censorship official from Toronto. They agreed: 1) that a censor should be stationed in Windsor to advise them, 2) that they would kill any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canada & the Press | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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