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Nervously Mexico watched this threatening dualism. Last July's farcical, bloody election had settled nothing. Dark overtones of gunfire continued. A dozen Mexicans had been wounded in shooting bouts on that day alone. Rumors of revolt sprang up everywhere. Quipped one cynic: "Well, at last Mexico has a two-party system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Two-Party System | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...pessimism of professionals sprang from simple instinct. They had not wanted Willkie in the beginning. But for nine weeks they had tried to show him loyalty, proffer their service and support, make suggestions, consult. Some of them had been waved in & out of Colorado Springs for a smile, a handshake, a drink. Many -like William ("Bill") Ditter, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee-had never been consulted at all. Others-like Henry Fletcher, the Republicans' general counsel, who had gone to Colorado Springs with a 14-page legalistic essay on how the G. O. P. could get around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Mr. Willkie's Man Farley | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Then came the Wage-&-Hour law, and the Georgia tufters, whose working hours no time clock had ever measured, were out of luck. Rather than pay their tufters the law's wages, the bedspread makers bought tufting machines and moved production into factories. Most of the new factories sprang up around Dalton. The industry, now mechanized, grew faster than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Catherine Evans1 Bedspreads | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Immediate ancestors of the Tristan myth were the troubadours of Provence. They were Albigensians, heretics, and their songs, their protocols of courtly love, were simply the elaborate double-talk of a theology driven underground. With them, in the 12th Century, passion took root in Europe. Thence sprang the whole of European literature, the whole shape and vocabulary of European mysticism, the whole ferocious timbre of European war fare, the whole possibility of such megalomaniacs as Hitler, the whole suffering wreckage of European love and marriage. De Rougemont believes there is an almost universal schizophrenia, a tide rip created in millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liebestod | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...because he thought it was his duty. When his great friend and hero George V sent him to Ottawa in 1935, when he had already made an imperial name for himself as a novelist and biographer and had adjudged himself too old for a career in Parliament, John Buchan sprang into action like one of Milner's young war horses, did a difficult job as ably as his teachers did theirs a generation before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Man's Burden | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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