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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Poet Homer gave the lowdown on Ulysses, wily has been the word for Greeks. The Greek syndicates of gamblers; the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, merchant of death; tens of thousands of Greek traders in fruits, tobaccos, steamships have carried on the Ulysses tradition of wandering, guile and gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sons of Greece | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Huddle and Muddle. That there was plenty of muddle as the civilian army took shelter, the whole London press frankly testified. Most of the confusion came, as Lord Horder remarked, because of "the use of shelters for a purpose for which they were not originally intended, namely as dormitories." Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Civilians in Battle | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

As early as 4 p.m. thousands began queuing up at public shelters. As they once did for theatre crowds, street singers stood by with their melancholy entertainment. Tens of thousands paid three halfpenny (about 3?) tube fares for a grimy plot of platform on which to sleep. Working-class people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Death and the Hazards | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Michigan. Drawing like a sump pump, good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson, 81, dredged up more than twice the combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Primaries | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Before & After. During the whole agonizing abdication crisis Hungarian troops, led by Regent Horthy on a white charger, were slowly moving into Transylvania. Tens of thousands of Rumanian peasants were being shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: God Help Your Majesty | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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