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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love fevers, unlike those outside the theatre, never so much as threaten to break the thermometer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Guileless Senator Logan died, but his fleabite, the Logan-Walter bill, remained to threaten the New Deal with gangrene. Anti-New Dealers saw in the bill a weapon with which to assassinate such agencies as the Securities Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Wage-&-Hour Division. With them were plenty of other men who were honestly outraged by the New Deal's bureaucratic stupidities and abuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: VENI, VIDI, VETO | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Contending that "the British Isles remain the Chief center of resistance to the forces which also threaten American security," the message advocates "the maximum effort of a United America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Defense Group Urges FDR Accelerate Country's Production | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

Remembering that meeting, we feel that Professor Morison's excellent counsel should be directed not only to the students but also to those members of the faculty who, in the desire to arouse emotion and forestall critical discussion, threaten to override the very principle which it is their duty to teach. Robert G. Davis, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Philip C. Horton, Instructor in English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

...India Leopold Stennett Amery put the brightest of all faces on the historic stand of Greece. Said he: "If we can enable Greece to hold her own until we have disposed of the Italians in Egypt, we shall have secured for our armies a foothold from which we might threaten the flank of any German attack on Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Children of Socrates | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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