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Military Voyage. Boarding a Navy heavy cruiser, a one-year-old veteran of 15 Pacific engagements, the President left San Diego Naval base the day after his Fourth Term acceptance speech, to rediscover the Pacific War. He lolled and rested for five days as the big grey ship plowed westward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO,REPUBLICANS: The Waikiki Conference | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

The unprecedented niffnaw over the Vice-Presidency almost obscured the rest of the convention. The platform committee droned away in a vacuum after the delegates learned that it had already been written. For the ubiquitous Sam Rosenman had long ago drafted a platform of about 2,200 words. Then several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Struggle | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

"Some people," said Churchill, "think that our foreign policy toward Spain is best expressed by drawing comical or even rude caricatures of General Franco, but I think there is more than that." Specifically: Spain might have wrecked Allied plans for the North African invasion. As many as 600 invasion planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plain Talk | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

One day last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anna's Back | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Jumping frogs come from all over. Last week's Manhattan competitors came from frog farms in Vermont and New Jersey. The New Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leapers | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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