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...Government warned: "In view of the German threat to bomb Athens and Cairo, His Majesty's Government wish it to be understood that if either of these two cities is molested, they will commence a systematic bombing of Rome. Once it has begun it will continue as convenient till the end of the war. The greatest care will be taken not to bomb the Vatican City." Benito ("War Is the Normal State of the People") Mussolini was again on a spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATER: Happy Birthday | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Died. Lieut. Colonel Dan Tyler Moore 64, military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt during his first term; in Houston, Tex. Once when boxing with the President, Colonel Moore clouted him so hard that he cost T.R. the sight of one eye. Not till 1917, twelve years later, did sporting T.R. allow his aide to learn that the injury was caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...join up when we offer them four dollars a week more pay, uniforms free and laundered by the University, a $50 sick benefit, and $150 to their families in case of death," explained Stefani. "Then, in a little while, they begin to backslide on their $1.50-a-month duce. Till this month, the union had no method of forcing them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waitresses, Kitchenworkers Forced To Pay Union Back Dues by April 30 | 4/16/1941 | See Source »

Something must be wrong with the Jubilee. It is the only time that the Freshman class meets as a group from the Smoker till Commencement Day. Yet last year only 277 out of a thousand Yardlings attended. Since it's for the class, a larger proportion should attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ladies in Lionel | 4/11/1941 | See Source »

...outside Germany. Gobineau and H. S. Chamberlain are discredited; "Mein Kampf" and Dr. Goebbels' pamphlets are not read from any desire for truth or information. Nietzsche, however, is a part of our own cultural inheritance--he has had followers among the intelligentsia of France, England, and the United States. Till now there has been no adequate English biography of this philosopher-prophet, only a few commentaries by such authors as H. L. Mencken, whose book is more Mencken business than Nietzschean, and W. H. Wright, alias S. S. Van Dine, creator of Philo Vance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 4/9/1941 | See Source »

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