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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Wake Island, 1,500 miles northeast of Truk, was bombed for the 16th time since a mighty carrier task force leveled the U.S.-owned island last October at a cost of 13 planes. A testimonial to the effectiveness of the October raid : not until last week, when one bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Here & There | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Eddie Cantor, who has been rolling his banjo eyes (see p. 54) at wounded servicemen on the "Purple Heart Circuit" for three months, was awarded a Purple Heart scroll at a testimonial dinner marking his 35th anniversary in show business.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

With a creditable power of memory, the signers of the testimonial ad recalled practically everything that Dimitrov, the burly General Secretary of the late Comintern, had said-ten years ago. But as to some of Dimitrov's more recent teachings, the 326 men & women suffered from amnesia. A merciful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invitation to the Dance | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

For scandal-scarred Jim Curley this is indictment No. 3. At the age of 29, while a Boston alderman, Curley was sentenced to 60 days for taking a letter carrier's examination under another man's name. After he had thrice been Mayor of Boston, the State Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Curley, the Famed Underdog | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Progressive Conservative Leader George Alexander Drew, socialite son-in-law of the Metropolitan Opera Company's Manager Edward Johnson, planned to form a government with himself as Premier, may be forced to enlist straggling Liberals. Ready to step aside was Premier Harry C. Nixon, whose campaign testimonial, "Come what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ontario Revolt | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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