Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more of you have signed up to share the expense, we have expanded our services again and again: adding the full wire service of the Associated Press - posting more than 200 of our own correspondents all over the world -opening our own editorial offices in London, Moscow, Cairo, Algiers, Stockholm, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Honolulu, New Delhi, Chungking, and nine U.S. cities...
When the Finns sent old Juho Kusti Paasikivi to Stockholm to ask the price of peace, a little old lady of 71, skilled in muting the harsh truths of power politics, gave him the Russian terms...
...cuting attorney and judge, he got to Congress in 1913. There he worked hard to pass the railroad eight-hour law (Adamson Act), which endeared him to labor. A personal and political dry, he was a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, once traveled all the way to Stockholm for an international prohibition conference. All during Prohibition, he stuck to ice-cream sodas. But he stumped for Al Smith, backed the Democrats' repeal plank in 1932, now takes an occasional drink...
...fact," Scott writes, "the biggest problem' is to find out whom you can believe. Many people here have intimate and reliable contacts inside the German blockade and can provide direct, fresh information. But Stockholm is also rife with rumors and rumormongers who come to me with fantastic stories of intrigues and escapes-advice, warnings and obscure mutterings of all kinds...
...open TIME'S Stockholm office, Scott crossed the Atlantic on a little unescorted merchant ship and flew to Sweden in the bombbay of a disarmed British Mosquito bomber that can carry only one passenger and flies only on moonless nights to lessen the chances of being shot down. His listening post is one of two we have set up in neutral European countries to get the truth out of Festung Euro pa and into the pages of TIME. The other is in Switzerland − and very soon I hope to be able to bring you word of still...