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In the light of all these contingencies, many a Lippmann reader thought last week that the pundit's suggestion made scant sense. Even his conclusion-an appeal to the President to prove that he was honest in his promise not to engage U.S. troops on foreign battlefields-could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Smaller Army? | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Sometimes Harold Ickes gets wistful, wonders why he is nobody's sweetheart. Said he recently: "I'm not a backslapper. I'm not a popular man and I know it. ... I'm short-tempered. I don't want yes-men around me. . . . I'm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Nobody's Sweetheart | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

When it comes to art, both Army and Navy still hanker after gauze and goddesses. The Army's prime favorite is still James Montgomery Flagg's World War I Uncle Sam, pointing imperiously and saying: "I Want YOU." The Navy's oldtime winner was a throat-catcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bulletin Board Patriotism | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

At the age of twelve, Stamm (which is German for "sprout") was working his way through grammar school as a long-distance cattlewalker, receiving a small compensation for driving Old Lady Sachs' cow to and from school and leaving it in a neighboring pasture. It was during this period that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

As always happens when Russia or Germany makes a move which by the use of a little imagination can be interpreted as hostile to the other, wistful thinkers saw in the first announcement a sign that Germany and Russia would soon be at each other's throats. The second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY--RUSSIA: Something Brewing | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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