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...time is the extraordinary present, in which the U.S. now-not as it is supposed to be next summer, next year, next millennium, when the air forces are to be built, the two-ocean Navy completed, the Army trained, the finances in order, the citizen cheerful, self-sacrificing, prudent, wise, farsighted, quick, able, industrious, thoughtful and good-faces a titanic production job for which, according to the editors, the plant is unsuited, the materials short, the organization inadequate, and the plans yet to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time: The Present | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Legal: The Law Journal editorialized that General Pershing's proposal, "however sound and wise and prudent," was illegal under the statute of June 15, 1917. Promptly four lawyers including onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson, rebutted with a contrary legal opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Story of a Tide | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...supporters riding on a train near Tlatilco were attacked by men shouting Viva Avila Camacho! Two were killed, "several" injured. An Almazán leader's body was next found floating in Mexico City's Canal. Then the Almazán campaign committee of Puebla considered it prudent suddenly to depart from the State where General Avila Camacho's brother is Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pistoleros' Progress | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...shot and the ministrations of Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), Jerry dies in battle. But this time valor is its only reward. There is not a girl in The Fighting 69th, luscious Priscilla Lane having been withdrawn at zero hour from the stag cast by what seems a prudent studio decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Everything Happens at Night (20th Century-Fox) continues prudent but so far rather unproductive efforts to turn Sonja Henie into a dramatic actress against the day when even Henie fans may tire of seeing Henie skate. Surrounded by a capable cast (Maurice Moscovich, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland), in a trite little, tight little tale, this time Sonja Henie skates only once, and though she is a competent skier, long shots of her skiing were done by a double. But whether she is gliding backwards or forwards, or skating rings around Greek columns to the strains of The Blue Danube, Sonja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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