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Evidently the sweeps by Britain's battle squadrons at both ends of the Mediterranean were to cover the passage of a big supply shipment, probably food and munitions, to Britain's forces in the Middle East along Britain's old Mediterranean life line, which was abandoned as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Mediterranean Swept | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

At week's end, FCC came in for a spanking itself. This time the paddle was wielded by one of its own members, Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, only radio engineer on the commission. In a letter to Minnesota's Senator Lundeen, Engineer Craven (who dissented from the cancellation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Too Early for Television? | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

That popular opinion is divided on that question quickly became manifest. Some sports writers applauded, some raised eyebrows. Chicago reprinted and sent to its alumni an article in The American Mercury by John R. Tunis, who described many a shady practice, charged that U. S. college football was "an unsavory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wolfpack | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Stories of unsolidarity among Allied troops inevitably trickled into Paris at the heels of men home on this war's first furlough. Metropolitan troops from Tunis were said to have been in a state of near mutiny ever since their arrival in France, heaving bread and canned corned beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Solidarity | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

The Roman ancestors of present-day Fascists fought three full-length wars with a first-class Semitic power-Carthage. For 17 years Semitic Generalissimo Hannibal made Italy unsafe for Italians; Scipio, played by Cinemactor Annibale (Hannibal) Ninchi, finally defeated him at Zama, near Carthage. Scipio Africanus reviews this ancient history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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