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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed that the danger of a world-wide war crisis would rise toward a maximum between 1939 and 1940 and he thought that by that time there should be someone younger, quicker and better equipped to meet the urgencies of possible warfare without delay in the White House. But he spoke of that rather as his own personal problem than America's."-(H. G. Wells-after lunching with President Roosevelt two years ago-in Collier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Candidates and the War | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Spirit. To instill new spirit in his armies Weygand dismissed 15 generals and promoted seven younger colonels to be major generals-a move likely to produce more energy and brainpower. But if he could stretch his men and artillery far enough, he still was short of other things. The bulk of the French mechanized forces (maximum: three divisions), and all the British and Belgian, were in the fatal pocket. Worse still, the Allied Air Forces, as daily losses added up, were whittled lower & lower. Besides attrition, further weakening of the R. A. F.-to which Premier Reynaud paid glowing tribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Desperation | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...German Army was disbanded at Versailles. Relieved of the sniffs and sneers of elderly Junker leadership, the younger officers of the then small Reichswehr were wholly free to develop new ideas. Into the ranks, when Hitler decreed conscription in 1935, poured determined, fanatical youths, proud, as most Germans are, of the profession of arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTICS: How the Germans Do It | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Lively, humorous, a great storyteller, Grant likes to tinkle on the piano while he sings bawdy verses. This makes him a great favorite with the racier, worldlier younger set that includes Reginald Gardiner, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Robert Coote, Phyllis Brooks, Lee Bowman, Randolph Scott. Scott started working for Paramount when Grant did and they are great buddies, and have often shared the same house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Alumni reaction to this and similar articles in the Bulletin has split pretty much along age groups. Most of the letters which The Bulletin has received approving the editorial policy have been from members of classes before 1930, which most of the disapproval had come from younger Alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STREAMLINED FORMAT USHERS IN MORE ACTIVE BULLETIN | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

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