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Secretary Perkins, stout defender of the 40-hour week, cautiously suggested that a 48-hour week might be necessary. But much more far-reaching was a plan sent to the White House by silver-thatched Paul McNutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Draft Everybody? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Surprisingly, stout man Moore outdoes himself in an unfamiliar medium, stealing the proceedings from ebullient Bob Hope. And Vera Zorina, dazzling in technicolor, proves that she has a lot more than twinkling toes to recommend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/5/1942 | See Source »

...farmers' wives, picked by Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife as representatives of the nation, were determined that, as far as they could manage it, the helter-skelter, out-of-kilter of World War I should not happen again. With stout good sense, they therefore agreed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Without Fuss or Feathers | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

ALPHABET HICKS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehort ($2). Clever alibi-busting by wily ex-lawyer detective clears up murders in a plastics laboratory near New York. Hicks is a worthy addition to the Stout sleuth-stable (other occupants: Nero Wolfe, Tecumseh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in December, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Yamamoto v. the Dragon | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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