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Since Catholic censors deal not with matters of fact but of faith and morals, the Detroit committee has had plenty of headaches over the slippery Coughlin discourses. Reputedly Father Coughlin several Sundays ago said something to which the censors had objected. Last Sunday's hocus-pocus suggested that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Build-Up | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

At week's end many a citizen was ready to shrug off the whole business. Then slippery Father Coughlin popped up again in the Christian Front news, blandly disavowed his earlier disavowal. Said he (in a Sunday sermon) : "While I do not belong to any unit of the Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Hypnotized Men | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

The Corsair, flown by Captain Edward Samson Alcock, younger brother of the Empire's late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Corsair in Congo | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

At times he traveled over roads that were cut through beds of coal, with great chunks of shining anthracite used for fence rocks. Sometimes his path was a rushing muddy stream, over whose slippery rocks he had to pick his way. This precarious route, he found, was the lifeline of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

When U. S. auto production started down hill last spring there was a steep and slippery grade ahead. With all four wheels locked, the industry slithered down from a top weekly production of 90,280 (at the end of March) and skidded to a dismal pace of 32,445 (during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: 1940 Models | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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