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Italy's portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Simmering | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Italy's portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Propaganda, 1918 Style | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...time in the Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Salem Revival | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Many an alarmed adult considers Youth brash, bad-mannered, ignorant and Red. Some even think that Youth is organized like a labor union, that Youth is a Movement. Last week grown-ups who think these things were able to get themselves into quite a stew over the goings-on of the biggest and most conglomerate of youth organizations, the American Youth Congress. Hitchhiking, riding jalopies, trains, busses, 482 delegates, black & white, representing 299 local and national groups, assembled in College Camp, Wis. for A. Y. C.'s sixth annual convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Here to Stay | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...disabled electrical worker in St. Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner. The menu: 2 oz. beef stew, % carrot, 1 onion, % potato, % slice of bread, 1 pat of oleomargarine, 1 canned prune. Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that the dinner was not quite enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Daughters of the Depression | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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