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> "We have made decided progress but we have lost most of three precious months during which Congress wrangled and harangued over tax laws. . . . The real bottle-neck has thus been centred not in the Army, not in the Navy, not in industry, but in a certain faction of Congress itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Facts without Fooling | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: How Not to Write a Tax Bill | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

There lie London's water-supply system, centred at Staines, and several trunk rail lines which, in the absence of an adequate motor-highway system, must feed and supply 8,600,000 people if the Thames jugular is constricted or cut.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Britain | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Dr. Hocking believes that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived, simply because it can recover there so many lost fragments of what is its own." The fusion of spiritual beliefs which he envisages for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One Religion for All | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

The phrase "Brain Trust" is happily dead, of overexertion. U. S. citizens tend more & more to think of their President as an independent, secretive, isolated individual existing in a near vacuum of his own making. Independent he is to a degree: he once said truly that only the President could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men Around the Man | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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