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All the open spaces around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they were for. The commander of the base explained that they were designed as an unpleasant reception for parachutists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS INDIES: JAPANESE IN JAVA | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

No sign of defeat marked Lord Lothian's manner, just as, a few days before his death, he gave no sign of his illness. As a Christian Scientist he believed that his real life lay in the world of thought, and that he could go through unpleasant material experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Death of Lothian | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Plump, amiable Editor Hall rises late, always walks by a florist's shop on his way to work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grandma Married | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

"However much any group of undergraduates may disagree with the opinion of the President of this University, there should prevail an ordinary regard for the institutions and their representatives, and I deeply regret that such an unpleasant incident occurred when we were your guests last Saturday."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BINGHAM SENDS YALE APOLOGY | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

When handsome, tough-minded Rexford Guy Tugwell was a working member of the first Brain Trust, he made one mistake fatal to a politico. He talked out loud about unfamiliar and unpleasant things. His thesis: that the world and the U. S. were drifting away from laissez-faire, should make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Mr. Tugwell's Idea | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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