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History had yet to judge whether his labors, and those of Stalin and Churchill, Would bring a just and durable peace. But Franklin Roosevelt brought nis Acme nation triumphantly through a great war and started it on the road toward peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roosevelt's Life & Times | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Millions of fervid Roosevelt supporters have assumed and insisted that President Roosevelt is a genuine But the President made nis declaration of "nationalism" with hardly a flicker of a cigaret ash. Having plumped for 100% "integrity," he went on smoothly and solemnly. The nations of the world, said he, have an objective: perhaps they can reach a unanimity which would stop wars before they are started. In a sense, he added, the League of Nations had that very, very great purpose, but that got involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Great Blueprint | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...shot to move the box, or to shovel manure if it helps win the war!" and move it himself? If he'd done that, he wouldn't have given the "worker" a chance to "declaim for 45 minutes on nis 'rights' " and he would have set an example which might have had a favorable effect on the workers under his jurisdiction. No doubt, the worker was a skunk, but what sort of animal was the foreman, that he couldn't meet such an easy challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1942 | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked clouds with nis newly invented rod and handed it to France, who electrocuted Tyranny and Pride with it and revived prostrate Liberty "by the application of Science." Finale: eight nymphs lay down on the Alleghenies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early Stages | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...just 66 minutes-6-1, 6-0, 6-3- Champion Budge disposed of Bunny Austin who was playing excellent tennis even though he had become a father during the tournament. With this victory Donald Budge became the only player ever to hold the Big Four championships of ten-nis (U. S., Australian, French, English) simultaneously and the only man ever to win at Wimbledon without the loss of a set. Next day he won the men's doubles (with Gene Mako) and the mixed doubles (with Alice Marble), and became the only person ever to win three Wimbledon championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Wimbledon | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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