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To every U. S. citizen the problem of national unity was just as serious as to the man jesting in the fizzling flare light on the Hyde Park porch. In the final count it appeared that there would be over 20,000,000 votes for Willkie and most of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Victory | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

But he had asked for a vote of confidence and in terms of his 57.4% popular majority in 1932, his 60.2% majority in 1936, it appeared that in 1940 he had received a vote of less confidence. On him therefore rested a greater moral responsibility for the welfare of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

A difficult man is Commentator Priestley. Feverishly insistent on getting his just due in BBC publicity, he once raised hell for two days after the London Times neglected to list his program. On another occasion, sharing a 15-minute overseas talk with Actor Leslie Howard, he stomped angrily around the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Exit Priestley | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

The question before the meeting was partly technical-partly philosophical. To start with, conferees had some figures. Over the $8,800,000,000 already appropriated for the 1941 fiscal year, defense will cost $19,200,000,000 of new money, to which must be added anything from $5,500,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Fireworks at the Mayflower | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

As far as Author Trotsky was concerned, publication of his Life of Stalin meant little. His literary reputation rested solidly on the three fat, incomparable volumes of his History of the Russian Revolution-his account of the social upheaval which he did much to inspire, foment and direct, and of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Death of a Revolutionary | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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