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"An incident of first-rate national meaning. . . . Sometimes plays are more potent than statesmen. . . . This play, depicting the tragedy of Finland, seemed to me a rank, inflammatory job, pleading for intervention, sneering at our reluctance to go in. America, still hesitant to plunge into the burning ruins of Europe, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Debate | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

The Earl of Chicago (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For years Robert Montgomery made out very handsomely as a Hollywood type. To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford. But all the while Robert Montgomery wanted to be a gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

By an incredible slip, the Secretary of Labor got her facts mixed on the split between the Federation and John Lewis, erroneously reporting that the ten original C. I. O. unions were "expelled" in 1936. Hair-splitting Mr. Green reminded her that the ten were suspended in 1936, that only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Green to Perkins | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

TIME, Feb. 6, p. 9, col. 3: "Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported. . . ." Please, what do you mean by patrioteer? And when you tell me, will you say if you mean that such are all who wish to see Harry Bridges deported? If you tell me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Mrs. O'Brien Entertains (by Harry Madden; produced by George Abbott) but she is not very entertaining. Snooting the century-ago Irish immigrants who fill her house, and sneering at all foreigners who are non-Irish, she is finally read a lecture on Americanism and the melting pot, quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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