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...free?" By the same reasoning, any prosperous and busy tyranny from ancient Babylon to present day Russia may be termed "invincible and free." Modern Holland was prosperous and busy. She was not invincible, and her prosperity and freedom are lost. Since lent of invincibility and freedom? Edwin L. Popper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

Earthquakes of Intensity Seven are bad.* The one that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quake and Answer | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Embarrassed by some of the memberships of his A. F. of L., Mr. Green has been busy defending his policies and himself, chiefly from superheated Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who has kept Mr. Green hopping like corn in a popper. Up for trial last week on a charge of snitching $60,000 from his organization of charwomen, chambermaids, was swarthy George Scalise, ex-president of the A. F. of L. Building Service Employes International Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Forgotten Men | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...POPPER'S PENGUINS-Richard & Florence Atwater - Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...instructors and tutors in History, the College named Oscar Handlin, M.A. '35, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and Edwin L. Popper 8G., of New York City, Paul E. Molloy 3G., of Winchester; Henry F. Thoma 2G., of Springfield, Illinois; William E. Rowley '37 of Newton Centre; and Wallace Stegner, Ph.D. Iowa '35, of Cambridge were appointed assistants in English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY APPOINTS EIGHTEEN TO FACULTY | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

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