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...Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone, agreed to come quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Filibuster! | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Book. The Keys of the Kingdom is a reverent piece of hagiography about a Catholic priest who is spiritually a good deal wiser, intellectually not quite so bright as most of the people around him. His keys are humility and kindness. The kingdom they unlock for him is a religious commonplace: the kingdom of God is within you. Its outward manifestation is tolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness Made Readable | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...forty minutes later for Ankara, where Turkey's President Ismet Inönü awaited him anxiously. Turkey is the door that the old conspirator must open, and Turkey was about to learn whether he meant to burst it, pry it, or slip in the back way and unlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Door to Dreamland | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...Biltmore Hotel Bowl. NBC played host. Master of Ceremonies Rudy Vallee presented Comedians Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly (Jim and Marion Jordan), Bergen & McCarthy, George Jessel. He called upon NBC's President Niles Trammell, who ended by giving Benny two gold keys that would unlock any door in NBC's Manhattan or Hollywood headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: All Hail to Jack Benny! | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...SNOOPER-MAN' CAUGHT RED-HANDED." Supporting its headline was a photograph. Pictured at the Lowell House bookshelves, with a pair of books in his hands, was Joseph Lyford. The Crimson's story: Hidden in the Lowell library night before, a Crimson photographic candidate had seen Lyford unlock the door precisely at 12:10 and begin reversing books, had snapped his camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foul Play at Harvard | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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