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...Ships. Until last month, the only U.S. contract Empire had was for reconditioning 300 3-in. guns for the Navy (to arm merchant vessels). But last spring Frank Cohen decided he could build ships too. So he went to see the Maritime Com mission Chairman, and Admiral Land told him he was crazy. At that time it was the Commission's frank policy to finance the expansion of existing yards, not to encourage new ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Frank Cohen, Munitionsmaker | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...Heard the Carpenters' William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, recently named to the executive board of the America First Com mittee, declare: "The America First Committee favors aid to the Allies but opposes sending our boys overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: United Family | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...realize that he is the most privileged citizen in the nation and the equal of anyone. The sergeant in the Nazis' army, unlike the civilian farmer or laborer, can rise from his ranks, and he can do it with the same ease as an American private gains his non-com stripes. William Shirer, in "Berlin Diary," tells of visiting the Kiel Navy Base and finding officers and men to be in close and friendly contact with each other. When he visited the fleet, officers and men were throwing a Christmas party together with the greatest of cameraderic. This would never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: America Untouchables | 10/16/1941 | See Source »

...While there is much talk about national community," Bishop von Galen concluded, "there can be no national com munity with persons responsible for these things and I refuse any kind of fellowship with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Niem | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Canada was so fed up with strikes, so anxious for a crackdown, that conservatives and labor leaders alike com plained that the order was inconclusive and a half measure, no answer to Canada's labor problem. As soon as the order was published, Minister McLarty took a walk. Ill for some time, he went off for a badly needed vacation. Political dopesters in Ottawa were pretty sure that he would not be Labor Minister when he returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Experiment in Labor Relations | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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