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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursuing these aims the Harvard group is not operating in a vacuum, but has been from the outset an informal adjunct of William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding England. Speaking at Harvard last week, Minturn Sedgwick, Vice-Chairman of the White outfit, said in describing a hypothetical transfer of American bombers to great Britain, "The President is all for the plan, but only if public opinion gets behind it. That's where the William Allen white committee swings into action, and pretty soon, Bang! and the deal is done." This was not sheer boasting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEAD, KINDLY WHITE | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

Chevrolet expects to sell 1,100,000 cars this year, enough to keep it the world's No. 1 car. The '41s have thrown out running boards and the Master 85 series of last year. Prices from $712 to $995 include two-tone exteriors and interiors, vacuum-operated tops for sport models, locks on both front doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...mice, tame as they could he, were finally gathered together by David Coulter, the CRIMSON'S braw caretaker. David cornered the redents with the aid of a vacuum cleaner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mouse Brings 199 Cousins To Feast in Crimson Office | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

Glamorous, remote, subsidized by its own French suppliers, Paris uttered its whims from a sort of international vacuum, an oracle in a cave. To get the oracular word was worth lush expense accounts (around $5,000 a trip) to respectable U. S. manufacturers. From Mrs. Harrison Williams, who bought her wardrobe at the openings, to a 30th Street shoestringer who stole his line by camera from Bergdorf's window, the whole world got the same word, simultaneously. Last week the U. S. dress business still half-hoped Paris would rise from its tomb to speak the authoritative word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLOTHES: Home Styles | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...phrase "Brain Trust" is happily dead, of overexertion. U. S. citizens tend more & more to think of their President as an independent, secretive, isolated individual existing in a near vacuum of his own making. Independent he is to a degree: he once said truly that only the President could speak for the President. Secretive he can be (about Third Term, for instance). But he is not isolated. Around him, on the pedestal where Presidents must live, are men on whom he relies. In seven years the make up of that group has changed several times. In 1933 it centred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men Around the Man | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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