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...year ahead of her class. She was an avid reader of fiction, newspapers, crime stories. She told this nightmare tale with stupendous composure. Throughout her questioning, she stuck to her story, said finally: "I'd like to have some soup and a piece of lemon cream pie." Steadfast in his belief that Chloe was telling the truth was her stricken father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...appeal to the youth of America is to stand steadfast on our traditional foreign policy laid down by George Washington in 1793--neutrality, non-intervention, no entangling alliances, and no entangling peace." Representative Fish continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ham Fish Attacks War-Minded College Heads in Plea for Peace | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Communist rank & file has hung on through every swing toward Hitlerism. Pondering these tenacious loyalists, a writer in the pinko Nation last week observed: "Genuinely perturbed by the defections around them, they calmly recite Lenin's prophecy: When the locomotive of history takes a sharp turn, only the steadfast cling to the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Only the Steadfast | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week three hitherto steadfast Communists jumped from the train with what dignity they could. Frail, bespectacled Granville Hicks, a free-lance critic, writer (I Like America, John Reed-The Making of a Revolutionary), whose appointment to a Harvard fellowship raised a great stir in 1938, resigned not because he disapproved of the Russo-German Pact, but because bigwig Reds approved it before they could possibly know anything about it. ''The leaders of the Communist Party," wrote Mr. Hicks in the weekly New Republic, "have tried to appear omniscient, and they have succeeded in being ridiculous. They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Only the Steadfast | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Suspicious of his motives, the Congress voted not to turn Franklin Roosevelt loose in world power politics. The scene one night last week upstairs in the Oval Room at the White House, with the President of the United States making one last, futile plea to a steadfast coalition of Senators grouped against his brand of Neutrality marked the nadir of collapse. In rapid succession other collapses followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Collapse In the Capitol | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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