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Bigger profits from bigger sales has by no means been a business axiom since the New Deal. Cost of labor and materials tended to jump faster than the price of finished products. But Chrysler in the March quarter boosted its sales 57%, its profits 177%. How Mr. Chrysler made so much money in three short months puzzled Wall Street, for no bookkeeping tricks accounted for the gain. Most credible explanation...
...Combat demagogues with demogoguery" is a political axiom which the intelligent portion of this country has long neglected. Amused by the obvious imbecility of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend, yet considerably frightened by the tremendous effect of these orators on what they consider "the people of no importance," the intelligentsia have not departed from time-honored tactics. Yet these tactics have failed. No longer can a man be laughed out of existence when he holds the secret to Kingdom Come for the common people...
...citizen, born in Bavaria in 1894, naturalized in Cleveland in 1922. Nonetheless the German State contends that this U. S. citizen could and did commit high treason against the German Reich. Such a crime is possible only under the New Justice. Outside Nazidom it is a basic legal axiom that no man can commit treason against a country...
...grim axiom of Soviet trials is "They Always Confess." Last week that axiom again proved sound in Leningrad where Joseph Stalin was having privately polished off a group of redoubtable Old Bolsheviks-some older than Stalin in the Communist aristocracy founded by Nikolai Lenin...
...This is my last defense of the State of which I am ashamed. Let the North, West, and East remember that in the South, as well as their own regions, intelligence is in the minority, and that, by a sometimes faulty axiom, the minority is right. Foreseeing a possible run of cancelled subscriptions, the redress of trodden toes, I say such a move is the mark of the subscribers' grade of intelligence. They do not deserve to read TIME...