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...Operations (A-3), most important section of the staff war-wise, is bossed by another West Pointer, sleek-haired youngish Brigadier General Earl Naiden, 48, whose fellows account him one of the most knowledgeable officers of the service in tactics and strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Bombers are Growing | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Into the White House last week marched youngish Thor Thors, Iceland diplomat. Franklin Roosevelt accepted his credentials as first Minister to the U.S. from Iceland, acknowledged an agreement to underwrite all British trade obligations to Iceland under a special Lend-Lease agreement, at an estimated cost to the U.S. of about $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. will pay dollars to Iceland for all the fish and fish oil shipped from Iceland to Britain, will treat the little democracy as a Good Neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Aid to Iceland | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...collection of primitive music survived a shipwreck and an automobile smashup before it was brought home by a footloose family-bronzed, youngish Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock, and their plump, jolly mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...cast of the Cambridge Summer Theatre has caught this spirit of the authors of "The Male Animal" and have not stretched the comedy of the play to a point where it becomes farce. Conrad Nagel, in the lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives...

Author: By E. G., | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

Then the House Judiciary Committee is expected to consider two bills: 1) one sponsored by Oklahoma's young middle-roader Mike Monroney, 2) one sponsored by Pennsylvania's youngish conservative Francis Walter. The Monroney bill is Arnold's baby, would specifically permit prosecution of labor racketeers, would let the Justice Department move in on cutthroat jurisdictional strikes, would outlaw many a nefarious-but-usual labor practice. The Walter bill, even tougher, would permit injunction suits by any person "affected, injured, or threatened with injury" by objectionable union practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Never Say Die | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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