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His Enemy. As Adolf Hitler's war breathed closer & closer to him, Joseph Stalin must have reviewed with a weary irony his relations with Hitler. When the upstart Hitler came to power in 1933, Joseph Stalin was already steel nine years tempered. He had already begun great projects: rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Appointment in Samara | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Even Philadelphia's terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who owns more Renoirs than the Louvre, has the Pennsylvania Dutch itch. In one of his best vitriol-blue shirts, white-haired Collector Barnes was one of those who went last week to the little town of Norristown, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dutch Treats | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Every now and then one of us gets pneumonia or something and it looks as though a fast plane trip to New York for special treatment is advisable. So a friend, brother, or father, with his anxiety tempered by the hope that a New York specialist can help, runs to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

But Congress, still groaning from the $13,000,000,000 tax egg it laid a few weeks ago, is not anxious to start brooding on Social Security taxes. Last week President Roosevelt sent for hot-tempered old Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, mountaineer chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Price Security? | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

To hot-tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yo went the credit. When the Japanese columns first stabbed at his troops General Hsueh had not tried to hold them. To make effective his numerical superiority he tried to outflank the drive, throw his men at the Japanese rear supply lines. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF CHINA: Honorable Sour Grapes | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

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