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...Joseph J. ("Flying Dutchman") Dunkel, a Cleveland parachute jumper, wired Samuel Church: "Plans complete. . . . Need $25,000. . . . Wire instructions and cash. We take off on receipt of expense money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: A Million for Hitler | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...seemed to his students, throughout the war he had held fast to his convictions and finally in October 1918 he had felt moved to protest publicly his indignation "as a Christian and an American" against the "orgy of hate" indulged in by the press and the people upon the receipt of peace overtures from the enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...Note: The Crimson apologizes to Professor Elliott for not having printed his letter immediately upon receipt. The first sentences of the last paragraph seemed to the editors to indicate that the letter was not intended for publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

...professional politicians, who, controlling the votes of non-property owners, the ignorant, the vagrant, the parasitic, dominated elections at the expense of home owners. Mr. Wittwer sat down and thought till he thought up a cure: give an extra vote to every man who can show a tax receipt for a home or a piece of property.* The name Otto Wittwer gave to his system for knocking out the politicians : the One-Two Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: One-Two | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Some 250 years ago, Cockney Nell Gwyn, self-styled "Protestant whore" of King Charles II, unable to write her own name, initialed a 12-shilling receipt "for a pair of rich embroidered garters." Sold at famous Sotheby's in London in 1939, the voucher, without the garters, brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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