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On the train the President spent hours over prison pardons; forced a tired smile for newsmen, for the first time failed to call by their first names the little group of correspondents that has traveled with him scores of thousands of miles. Piped aboard the Tuscaloosa, he posed for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deep Waters | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

When King George V named little John Buchan to be his Governor General of Canada in 1935, Canadians knew him only as the prolific author of nearly 50 books. In England his fame rested chiefly on his immensely popular adventure fiction. "Mr. Buchan," a London newspaperman asked him, "how would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Wee But Great | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

A Constitutional prerogative of the U. S. Senate is the right to ratify all U. S. treaties with foreign Governments. And one of the chores the Congress as a whole has most enjoyed is the writing of tariff bills. Under the New Deal the key to both these powers has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Barn Door | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

It was cold and partly cloudy in Washington last week when President Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs. Rested after his quietest week since the war began, he stepped off the train to be greeted by a sober-visaged Secretary of State Cordell Hull, flanked by Under Secretary of State Sumner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reaction | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week, in the grandiose splendors of the Library of Congress, two attendants on the second-floor gallery carefully wrestled a 17-inch square bronze frame into a metal stand. One of wrathful King John's four copies, brown and dim with age, its Latin screed legible only to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Curious Passage | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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