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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army camps and posts, A.A.R. and railroadmen have gone over the Army's lists, showing the length and dates of leave and the destination of each soldier. For each soldier an itinerary has been prepared to his home and back (some camps will paste these to each ticket). For each special car and special train, there is a detailed timetable. On all trains M.P.s will try to keep order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Troop Movement | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Hemmed in by reporters and photographers, John P. Marquand '15, yesterday presented the motion picture script of his best-selling novel, "H. M. Pulham, Esq." to the Widener Library Theatre Collection. The presentation was part of a publicity scheme intended to boost ticket sales of the M.G.M. picture, which opens in Boston tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marquand Donates H. M. Pulham Movie Script to Theatre Collection | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

...still substantial, well-paid citizens with economic views well to the right of center. On Class I roads full-time engineers average $288 a month, conductors $267, firemen $220. They own their own homes, pay taxes, send their children to college. Many a railroad man votes the straight Republican ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Inconceivable Strike | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

This year, for the first time, the docile Filipinos cast their ballots under the "block-voting" system, for which Manuel Quezon got his idea from Adolf Hitler's Germany. They could vote a straight party ticket by simply writing in the name of the party. To split the ticket, they had to write down the full names of 27 candidates in a stuffy election booth-while Quezon's watchful ward leaders thoughtfully eyed their clocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Bedroom Campaign | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...duetted the equally compendious Men of Music for the same shrewd, music-loving publishers.* In their survey of more than three centuries of opera they give some bassoon blatts to some of opera's most sacred cows (Wagner's Parsifal is largely "plain dreary"). Brockway and Weinstock ticket Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera for its less-than-flawless taste, convict it of indifference to native opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Words & Music | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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