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Last week at his press conference President Roosevelt said his say about selective-military service. He leaned well back in his swivel chair, clamped on his pince-nez, blew his lungs empty and talked for half an hour without interruption or question. There was a story in what he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: In the Open | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

To the British Government this was quite unfunny. Especially serious was the violent death-the Japanese claimed it was "suicide"-of one of the arrested suspects, Reuters Correspondent Melville James Cox (TIME, Aug. 5). Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax sent an invitation for a little conversation around to Ambassador Shigemitsu. Sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: An End to Toadying | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Justification for this double monopoly has long rested on three main points: 1) if individual railroads had to meet traffic peaks with their own sleeping and parlor cars, they would be burdened with a large excess investment; 2) because many sleeping car operations are through operations over several roads'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Pullman Monopoly | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

"The outcome of this grim struggle will affect you almost as much as it will affect us. For if Hitler gets our fleet, or destroys it, the whole foundation on which the security of both our countries has rested for 120 years will have disappeared. . . . Let me be blunt. . From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lord Lothian's Job | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

"Let me be blunt," said he, "If Hitler gets our fleet, or destroys it, the whole foundation on which the security of both our countries has rested for 120 years will have disappeared. . . . Moreover, if Hitler beats us, the totalitarian powers will possess airplane building facilities, naval and shipbuilding dockyards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale & Harvard Week | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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