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Wendell Willkie, "dark horse" of the Republican party has finally struck root in Harvard with the establishment of a Willkie-for-President movement centering in Grays Hall under the direction of David Place '43, rabid supporter of the midwest utility king...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLKIE-FOR-PRESIDENT BOOM STARTED BY FRESHMAN GROUP | 5/15/1940 | See Source »

...Indiana University: the National Collegiate A. A. basketball tournament; defeating the University of Kansas, another basketball hotbed, in the final, 60-10-42; before 10,000 rabid rooters in the Municipal Auditorium; at Kansas City. Same night, at Indianapolis, 15,000 fans saw Hammond Tech, survivors of a field of 775 high-school teams, win the Indiana State high-school championship, a sport event for which Hoosiers would not trade tickets for the World Series, the Rose Bowl or the Kentucky Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...East Indies; and would presuppose a willingness to oppose Japan with arms if necessary. After two years as High Commissioner to the Philippines, Paul Vories McNutt returned to the U. S. as a burning apostle of this view. The present High Commissioner, Francis Bowes Sayre, is a rabid convert to it. And it is a good bet that some time soon Filipino President Manuel L. Quezon will publicly beg the U. S. to postpone Philippine independence beyond 1946 and keep Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Authors Mock & Larson also correct many a misconception about the CPI. One of these is that the Creel Committee was entirely responsible for converting a neutral-minded public into a rabid war mob overnight. A lot of neutrality had crumbled away before George Creel finished it off. From Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay to Ambassador Page in London, most of the "best people" in the U. S. had been pro-Ally from the start. On March 11, "War Sunday" had sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CPI | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

General Wilhelm Keitel, Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces, who technically outranks even Hermann Göring. No rabid Nazi, 56-year-old General Keitel has been in the Army since he was 19, served through the last War as an artillery captain and general staff officer. After the Army purge of 1938 he emerged as its new chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Supreme Council | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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