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...aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Since the I. R. A. has more than once killed prominent Irishmen who voted to suppress it, the Dail strove to protect its members' lives by balloting in secret last week, and the vote was announced as 82-to-9 favoring de Valera's emergency bill. The Senate followed 62-to-7, and straight way de Valera sent out 5,000 Special Police armed with rifles to hunt down the I. R. A. All ports of Eire and the frontier with Northern Ireland were carefully manned and police with rifles took over what amounted to military guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: With American Money! | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

While thus chumming up to Communist Stalin in a military sense, Nazi Hitler strove to keep a political line sharply drawn between the two regimes: "I want to give here an explanation: Russia remains what she is and Germany also remains what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven Years War? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter Glass for 30 years) as Norfolk customs collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...truly representative national competitions in U. S. athletics is the National Amateur Golf championship. This year, in its 28 sectional qualifying tournaments, 831 silver-spoon and rusty-putter golfers in all corners of the U. S. strove for the 171 places in last week's entry list at Chicago's North Shore Country Club. The National itself is one of the toughest grinds going-two qualifying rounds of medal play to cut the field to 64, four rounds of 18-hole match play to determine the semifinalists, then 36-hole semifinal and final matches. Bobby Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfers' Golfer | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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