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...Last week Abetz was rumored in Vichy to be the coming strong man of France. That Adolf Hitler would not mind seeing the Pétain Government overthrown was evident when the Berlin radio in a series of broadcasts characterized the men of Vichy as "hyenas tearing at the carcass of dead France," as "buzzards who eat one of their own kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Justice at Riom | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...whipped the noisy and the neck-craners into discipline when game was near. They were skillful shots; one bullet or one arrow per bison was usually enough. Tixier predicted the extinction of the bison; the Osage killed them at random, usually left 150 Ib. of excellent meat on each carcass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indians, Then & Now | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Association, are opposed to the agency principle of government, and would like to see Congress regain all its former legislative power, and the courts their judicial power. Seeing little or no usefulness in agencies, they have backed away right and left at their powers, until only a maimed carcass is left, which they would probably be only too glad to see thrown away also. But the New Dealers, including Dean Landis, are idealistic about agencies, and see in them an important tool in the hands of a government working on all fronts for the "general welfare." It seems to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALPHABETS IN THE SOUP | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

...essential similarity existing between a man and the side of raw meat which he is preparing to cut. Placed on a table behind which this butcher-like individual is standing, are plates and bowls which contain ground meats, salamis, and other foods representing the products for which the carcass of the slaughtered animal is utilized. In the lower left corner of the painting, there is a potted plant, the pale green leaves of which serve as a restful contrast to the warm color used elsewhere. Thus, in Grosz's "The Way Of All Flesh," we find a pictorial presentation...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...species, including the featherless biped, Homo sapiens. On one of their arctic expeditions they caught six white whales, one of which weighed almost exactly the same as Equipoise .when he died. The Whitney stables politely allowed them to take the organs they wanted from the great horse's carcass. Last week Dr. Crile's solid, grey research associate, Dr. Daniel Paul Quiring, gave the figures on whale v. horse at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Philosophical Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale Y. Horse | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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