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...Foster, a wealthy wolf, she flunks her operatic try out. As she departs, she is told that her voice is good, that there must be a place for it somewhere. In a flick of the camera lens she is singing happy-birthday messages into a telephone from a telegraph office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1941 | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...labor responsibility. Submerged a little, but directed toward the job he is best at-production-was William S. Knudsen. The big red-faced Dane-born motormaker got a new assistant, who will take Biggers' job as actual production chief: William Henry Harrison, 48, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., a veteran construction supervisor, a big, hearty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Battle Won? | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Then one night while Secretary of War Cameron "turned over for another nap," the Marylanders burned the railroad bridges on the Harrisburg and Philadelphia lines. Washington had no mail or newspapers. The telegraph "faltered on" until rioters seized the Baltimore office. Washington was left "in silence, isolation and fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Washington at War | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Furriners Must Git! | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Guerrilla units, mounted and foot, must be formed, diversionist groups must be organized to combat enemy troops, to foment guerrilla warfare everywhere, to blow up bridges and roads, damage telephone and telegraph lines and to set fire to forests, stores and transports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Second Wind, Third Week | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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