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...Heard himself praised as a "humanist" by Chase S. Osborn, former Republican Governor of Michigan, who denounced Wendell Willkie as a "rapacious capitalist...
Russian boys of 18, 19 and 20 were called up for conscript service in the Red Army last week. Reason: "the threat of capitalist encirclement." Troops of the Western Military District opened their regular fall maneuvers near the frontiers of German Poland and Rumania. In the rich Ukraine the city of Kiev was peppered with mock bombs. The Red Navy completed summer maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny...
...idle men is not fair. Many firms serve themselves and the economy better with high-efficiency, high-capacity machinery run part of the time, than they would by running low-capacity, inefficient machinery more of the time. Most estimates of the "waste" caused by idle capital equipment measure a capitalist economy with a socialist yardstick. To liberal-capitalist Theorist Rockefeller, the goal to strike for, under any form of government, is optimum production achieved at minimum cost...
Money is an academic subject to wealthy Mrs. Milburn, who is a daughter of the late Moritz Thomsen, west-coast manufacturer, capitalist and head of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. But it is an academic subject that fascinates her. There is nothing she loves better than to read a book or give a lecture on the evils of money as it is administered today. According to her sister, Mrs. Frederick Sundt, of Seattle, Mrs. Milburn has it in for Montagu Norman and other bankers and thinks that they, as middlemen, should be eliminated. Four years ago Mrs. Milburn joined...
...alliances for protection. Unlike the pacific U. S., she is ready to fight-or aggress first-to halt aggression that seems ultimately aimed at her. Though Russia might like to run the world, for a long time to come she will settle for simple security. But so long as capitalist countries fear Communism, they will suspect Russia of sinister intentions. And so long as the U. S. S. R. fears Capitalism, she will remain hostile, suspicious, Communist...