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On the East Poland's defenses are not concentrated. Only five fortified cities piece out the distances not protected by the morasses of the many-branched Pripet River, to stave out the Red Army which last week growled ominously (see p. 35). Should the Red Army move west, Poland would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Even as a democrat, General Carpenter will have a wide command, for his 27,000 subordinate officers use 104 languages, work in 97 countries. Throughout the world the Army has an estimated 3,000,000 active members (240,000 in the U. S.), over $100,000,000 worth of property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Democrat for Autocrat | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Last Sunday U. S. radio listeners heard some of the music from the Library's stacks. Howard Barlow led Columbia Broadcasting Symphony through ten waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches of Johann Strauss and his contemporaries. The titles of the pieces told much of Vienna's ballroom life-Electrophor polka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Straussiana | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Fact is, polls of public opinion on Neutrality have strongly supported the well-known Hull-Roosevelt desire to support the Democracies (with arms but not men) against the Dictators. The Bloom bill, passed by the House but now allowed to die in the Senate, was not wholly unacceptable to Messrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rebels and Ripsnorter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Grapes of Wrath, novels whose characters make social problems look alive have been surefire bestsellers. Right down this fictional alley marches stoop-shouldered old Isaac Emmanuel, drawn to shed much heat and some light on Nazi methods, Jewish refugees.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jew into Germany | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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