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Hold Back the Dawn (Paramount) triumphantly wrestles with a U.S. immigration problem: how to keep unscrupulous foreigners from marrying their way into the U.S. Dawn's solution is the regular box-office answer to an almost rhetorical question: "Is it love, or is it immigration?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Sitting in his shirt sleeves in his small office in Washington, President Green reads of these things with the resigned air of a man who has heard it all before-as in fact he has: ever since 17 years ago when he was raised to the decorative presidency of A.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holdup Men of Labor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

This is the greatest mass of rabble-rousing ever compiled-some 100 of Hitler's speeches in one volume-and, in the words of New York Times Critic Charles G. Poore,"the greatest anthology of broken promises." Editor: Franco-American Newspaperman Raoul de Roussy de Sales. Its 987 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mein Kampf Illustrated | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Yet he can write as tenderly about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Europe, he says, has always been distinguished by its "diversity in homogeneity." "It is sheer madness to stake all Europe on one card, on a single type of man, on one identical 'situation.' Europe's secret talent up to the present day has been to avoid this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lectures, Not Too Serious | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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