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Glenn Martin told about the 70-ton flying boat he has developed. Major General Brereton spoke to you from Egypt about the U.S. Forces in the Middle East. And the United Press reports that Senator Prentiss M. Brown's plea over the MARCH OF TIME last Thursday night may well have turned the tide in the Senate in favor of his compromise plan on agricultural parity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Against Bloc. But in the Senate there was a man with the courage of conviction, a man from a heavily agricultural State, and worse, a man running for reelection this year, Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat. Senator Brown set himself in the path of the farm-bloc juggernaut. The 250-odd farm lobbyists had the votes-but Senator Brown had logic and virtue on his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: God Forbid . . . Such Disunity | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...their allegiance to Judge Homer Ferguson. By naming a good and honest Judge who had cleaned up much of Detroit's graft and corruption, the Republicans assured the State of a knockdown contest in November between two better-than-average candidates. The Judge's opponent: able Democrat Prentiss M. Brown, now steering the anti-inflation bill through the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Primaries' End | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Finally, as this week began, the joint resolution agreed upon at the White House conference was dropped into the Senate hopper by Michigan's Prentiss F. Brown, who steered the original price-control bill. The resolution "authorized and directed" the President to stabilize prices, wages, salaries and "other factors" affecting the cost of living, substituted 100% of parity (or the highest price this year) for 110%, directed that stabilization should be based on the levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Ten Days Until Christmas | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...incorruptible Judge Ferguson beats off the threat of Gerald Smith, he will come up against a worthy opponent in November: rugged, independent Democratic Senator Prentiss M. Brown. Michigan will probably be one of the few States with two meritorous candidates for the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Hope in Michigan | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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