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An organized youth movement is a fairly new thing on the American scene, a development of the post-World War disillusion and the economic strains of the depression. Growing out of this background, it has supported the social reforms of the New Deal, and has opposed forces making for American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG BLOOD | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

Stumped by a question directed at him when he guested for Information, Please, fat, choleric, brain-trusting Defense Commissioner Leon ("Leon the Hen") Henderson reddened, mumbled: "The man who submitted that question can receive a $50 reward from a certain friend of mine, who wanted to see me embarrassed." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Japan's alternative would be a tough one, too-to reduce the flanking bases, while her aircraft, operating from Yap, Palau and other bases in the mandated islands, went to work on Amboina and Surabaya. In 1914, Tsingtao, garrisoned by about 6,000 German troops and wide open to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Naval Problem of the Orient | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

> To Reader Parrish a dunce cap for shallow cynicism. The primary interests of the U. S. are things on which all citizens agree: national independence, a chance to live in peace and prosperity, above all, government of the people, by the people, for the people. More than a dozen nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

No tsar has lost his head as yet in World War II, but Adolf Hitler has already taken four royal capitals and threatened several more. From the agitated monarchy front came the following news last week: > Too preoccupied with her frontier watch, Rumania failed to mark a historic anniversary. Ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Monarchy Front | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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