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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ as to how he got there. One version says he wore his dress uniform and commandeered a train. Another that he disguised himself as a porter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Hit Them in the Belly | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art strolled a shy young woman wearing flat shoes, high woolen socks, a dark blue slouch hat with brim pulled down, a dark blue coat. Busily unpacking Italian art masterpieces from the Golden Gate International Exposition were museum employes. Because flustered Allen Porter of the museum staff recognized equally flustered Greta Garbo, the film star saw the pictures a day before critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Most embarrassed was Dr. Frank Porter Graham, who, as president of the University of North Carolina, is also titular head of its subsidiary, North Carolina State. A few years ago Dr. Graham got the Southern Conference to bar subsidization of athletes. But the Conference two years ago repealed the provision in the Graham Plan barring subsidies by alumni, and last week it appeared that there was nothing Dr. Graham could do to keep the Wolfpack away from his door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wolfpack | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Charles O. Porter '41, yesterday attempted to stell the G.O.P. bandwagon when he presented Thomas Dewey, current Republican white-haired boy who is visiting Boston, with a printed examination paper called "Presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Gives Dewey Government 40' Exam Paper | 1/24/1940 | See Source »

Last week the eastern roads went before ICCommissioner Claude Rodman Porter for a continuation of the 2½? fare for more "trial" after its expiration date (March 24). In the sumptuous hearing room of ICC in Washington they found only B. & O. fighting for return of the 2? fare. Leading the fight was Dan Willard, who will be 79 before the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Two-Center | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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