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Closely related to this age-youth division on affairs economic has been a disagreement over the issue of war and peace. Anything but eager to duplicate the 1917 performance, generally held--as last June's Commencement Orator phrased it--to "stand condemned by its record," youth has pointed to post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE OCCASION OF MUSTER | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

His father and mother (who had borne Henry in 1874 in a covered wagon near Winnemucca, Nev.) had trekked to Flagstaff, Ariz., where the elder Ashurst went into the cattle business. Summers, young Henry punched cows, more often tethered his horse and strode around the lonely Arizona landscape, exhorting the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ashurst Out | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Harry Dalton, 29, is a big, friendly Manhattan building contractor who used to play halfback at West Point. He is also a devout Catholic and vigorous American. Strolling with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Mr. McNazi | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Into the swank Savoy Hotel shelter, where guests can dine, dance and sleep, marched 50 ill-clad men & women with two children. Leading the pack was Phil Piratin, famed Hyde Park Communist orator. Two elegant Savoy directors, a constable and a Scotland Yard detective could not make them budge, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: People's Week | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

The cheering, stamping audience shouted most thunderously when Orator Hitler sent this message to Great Britain: "I now prefer to fight until finally a wholly clear decision is reached. . . . When the British say: 'He doesn't come,' my answer is: 'Keep your shirts on. He is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shirts On | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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