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There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Long a President | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Last week, in the dairy country of northern New York, in the forests of Washington, along streams and through swamps in Louisiana and Wisconsin, the U. S. Army worked like terriers. In the biggest peacetime maneuvers in history, 300,000 regular, National Guard and reserve troops hiked, fought, slept in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Rehearsal | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

While contradictory rumors still rumbled about the misunderstanding which occurred when Henry Ford turned down a contract to build 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines, the Defense Advisory Commission's William S. Knudsen last week faced about and offered the contract to Packard Motor Car Co.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Can Packard Do It? | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Made to Take. "I shall fight in front of Paris, in Paris, behind Paris," swore France's old tiger, Georges Clemenceau in 1914 when German artillery rumbled 17 miles away. "We shall defend every stone, every clod of earth, every lamppost and every building," declared an official French spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Last Days | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

They were just games, but they had the look, sound, smell of motorized war. They even had casualties: at week's end, twelve dead, about 200 injured. Engines aground and aloft belched more noise and fumes than did the guns (which fired blanks). There were agile, armored scout cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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