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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that they were keeping their Navy in the Pacific to prevent an imperial Japanese grab-for French Indo-China, The Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, the Philippines, all of remote Oceania. Last week it seemed that if the grab was to be stopped, the time for action was the pres ent; the place was the Pacific. It also seemed that the time and the place be longed to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance to the Atlantic? | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Mills one of the top-ranking women's colleges, worked hard in a dozen educational and political organizations, including the Institute of Pacific Relations, Association of American Colleges. In off hours she collects books, studies birds and animals. At teas for upper-classwomen, she is affectionately addressed as "Pres." As unpaid Moderator of U. S. Unitarians she takes on no mere honorary title but a job that comes close to being that of a super-public-relations woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Woman Moderator | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Please cancel my subscription. I subscribed to your paper some time ago because I thought well of an editorial. Ever since then I have been steadily losing hope. Today's editorial against Pres. Conant's radio talk is the last straw. I can only hope that the Harvard CRIMSON no more reflects the opinion of the undergraduates as a whole than the "New Republic" does for the majority of American citizens. Alfred Codman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: May 31, 1940. | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Senate seat he has since retained. Bounding Burt was hot stuff from the start. In late 1923, as his colleague Walsh lifted the lid of the G. 0. P.'s Teapot Dome, Senator Wheeler began to pry into the man who made Warren G. Harding Pres ident : Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Daugherty's FBI agents toothcombed Montana for Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come to trial, Wheeler was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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