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...minor problem for the British high command when war broke out was what to do about the self-exiled Edward VIII, who still retained a raft of honorary military titles. It was decided that he should be made a simple major general and attached to General Gort's B. E. F. staff to do "liaison work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Travels of Edward | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...last summer, observed, in her apprehensive English: "I walk through the streets and I do not see children and I do not miss them. I ask myself, why is this? And then I realize that the men have children's faces." A woman with a raft of friends, Diseuse Oswald got for her debut the sponsorship of such child-faced U. S. men as Malcolm Cowley, John Erskine, Langston Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diseuse | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...raft of new laws and regulations. Still undecided by FCC are the rules that will govern FM transmission, the licensing of stations, power, coverage and engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FM to Town | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...moved from "Green Hell" to "The House Across the Bay," but she still can't do much more than present a very pleasant appearance and some rather poor acting. This latest production of husband Walter Wanger finds her pining away for George "The Mug With a Good Heart" Raft, whom the FBI has sent away for an Alcatraz vacation. Love is present in the form of a quadrangle, but Joan stays loyal to her George; he shows his appreciation by letting himself be shot. Lloyd Nolan, menacing as every, tries to worm his way into Miss Bennett's heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...When we got to Boston, a raft of cops were trailing us, and finally they stopped the car. Somebody said to me, 'You better get the hell out of heah,' so I jumped out into the next car. They took me on up to Harvard, that is, I thought it was Harvard, so I went ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh, Harvard, Where Dat Smokah? Is Rochester's Cry After MIT Abduction | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

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