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It took a full minute for the audience to drag itself back to reality. And then a deafening tumult rattled the convention hall. The shrieking mob raised their now leader upon their shoulders. They stamped round the room to the rhythm of thumping chairs, waving flags, and a steady chant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/5/1940 | See Source »

In a campaign to get more hosiery manufacturers to put the union label on silk stockings, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (C. I. O.) last week featured a full-page advertisement in the Knit Goods Weekly, showing Hollywood Star Jean Parker, sleek limbs sheathed in stockings stamped with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Limbs | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Marraine to 200 French aviators is Mme Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, who now patriotically wears nothing but the French national colors - red, white & blue - but less patriotically has closed her famed Paris style shop. "I don't believe in sending just anything to my aviators!" cried Coco last week, explaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Adam Ramage was a handy Scots wood-joiner who emigrated to the U. S. around 1790 and went into the business of making printers' materials. He built his first presses out of Honduras mahogany, added iron to beds and platens to make them durable, finally abandoned wood for iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sen//ne/ | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Wang Ching-wei, prospective head of the "all-the-People" puppet Government of China, a Japanese tool with combined Japanese Army-Government approval freshly stamped on his forehead, sent a wordy telegram to the Generalissimo. He proposed discussions "with a view toward securing nationwide peace on a basis of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: From My Inner Heart | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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