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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The attack began suddenly. First there was a brief communique in William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. Next morning the item was blown up into a front-page spread. Across the continent the story streaked to make headlines in the New York Journal and American, many another Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Freely Criticized Company | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

As reported by the Hearst press, a typical Legion stricture on Welles and The Free Company was that of Homer L. Chaillaux, chairman of the Legion's National Americanism Commission: ". . . cleverly designed to poison the minds of young Americans. . . ." Echoed a spokesman for a Legion post in Brooklyn: "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Freely Criticized Company | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

To most U.S. citizens, still not fully awake to the threat of Europe's war, the possibility of a bombing attack is as remote and unreal as an invasion from Mars. Yet military men know that such an attack might, become real. They also know that even a minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The U. S. v. Bombs | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

What he did not say-what he did not need to say-was that the hemisphere-wide seizure of Axis ships, immediately after the U.S. acted, was a demonstration of coordinated hemisphere solidarity that surpassed any precedent. Two days before, Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Mexican Ambassador Francisco Castillo N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: News among Newsmen | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Canada Lee, a Negro fighter, musician and actor of the order of Robeson, got his euphonious name from the late, famed prizefight announcer Joe Humphreys, who couldn't be bothered with Canada's real name: Lionel Canegata. Canada was born of West Indian parents in Manhattan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Apr. 7, 1941 | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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