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Director George Stevens (The Talk of the Town) last week rhetorically answered a rhetorical question: "How can the movies best aid the war effort?" The discussion, in which Novelist Erskine Caldwell, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Walt Disney and others also joined plangent voices, was broadcast on the American Forum of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood at War | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

But rhetorical promises will not accomplish this feat of winning China by words. Definite guarantees of this selfsame economic security and political independence must be components of any treaty that will invite China's confidence. The road to victory requires more than one step in the right direction.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Checkers | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

Near the end of his speech, Senator Wagner launched a rhetorical question: "With our country in danger, I submit there is only one question before us and it is this: Who in Albany can do most to help us dispel that danger and restore us to security?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Farley Wins | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

There is MacArthur quietly picking Bataan as the ground on which to halt the Japanese, then calmly leading the struggle, calmly refusing to move for Japanese bombs, calmly leaving with his wife and four-year-old son in the high-powered speed boat (which had been his idea for Philippine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero As An Army | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

No great shakes as a play-at times rhetorical, at moments wooden, wobbly at the start, dawdling at the end-In Time to Come is yet a vivid stage document. At least twice-when the high-minded Wilson comes up against the hardheaded Lloyd George and the cynical Clemenceau, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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