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...Last week the Socialist Workers Party changed its tune, like the Communist Party (see p. 13) began to squeak for aid to the Soviet and the defeat of Hitlerism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Little Men | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...place as might have been supposed. The Hall, a ghostly place with mysterious acoustics, is a majestic marble democracy wherein the modest statues of the truly great are crowded out by the effigies of such comparative unknowns as Uriah Rose of Arkansas. George Shoup of Idaho. At night, rats squeak and gibber around the bases of the monuments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Homage to Huey | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

There was no more scoring until the middle of the third period, when Beebe converted left wing "Woody" Redmon's pass for the second Crimson goal. Princeton did a lot of pressing during the last two periods, but "Red" O'Neill kept his goal uncrossed with one close squeak and several spectacular saves...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: '44 SEXTET EDGES OUT PRINCETON, 3-2 | 2/8/1941 | See Source »

NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Artie Shaw can't play his way out of a paper bag--I became convinced of that when I heard him squeak his way through two twelve inch sides of what VICTOR is trying to pass off as being worth two twelve-inch sides. Miscarriage is titled Concerto for Clarinet, which you might have heard in "Second Chorus." However, there's some very fine boogie-woogie piano by Johnny Guarneri, who shows the influence of Albert Ammons. Also, Nick Fatool's drums and Billy Butterfield's trumpet save the coupling from being a total loss. . . . Record...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

...South Africa at war's outbreak because Parliament rejected his proposal to keep the Union neutral. Last month he resigned as leader of the Reunited Nationalist Party because the party rejected his program of independence for the Union. Last week, no longer a voice but only a squeak in South African politics, 74-year-old General Hertzog resigned his seat in Parliament, retired from politics to devote the rest of his life to "loyal service to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Hertzog to Grass | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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