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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This has led to the constant sabotaging of the state on the part of the industrialists fearing regulation, and on the other hand to revolutionary movements directed against the Bourgeois state by Marxians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERRIAM EXPLAINS NEED FOR DEMOCRATIC FAITH AVOWAL | 12/5/1940 | See Source »

...time when we ourselves shall be as well armed as our antagonist, and beyond that, if need be, I look to the time when the arsenals, training grounds and science of the New World and the Empire will give us that material superiority which, added to the loyalty of constant hearts, will surely bring victory and deliverance to mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Not So Badly | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Meticulous little Director William Wyler has packed his picture with atmosphere, an elusive quality for movies. He keeps his audience strained with a most effective dramatic time bomb - the constant feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Picture Man's Picture | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Praising the morale and spirit of the Spanish people, Negrin declared that the liberal movement in Spain is not dead, but that it now constitutes a powerful underground force which requires constant Government attention and watchfulness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FASCISTS BLASTED BY SON OF SPANISH LOYALIST PREMIER | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

...open a bitter dispute of long standing between physicians and surgeons. Ulcers of the stomach, most doctors believe, are caused by too much acid in the digestive juices. Too much acid corrodes the stomach lining at sensitive points, leaving a raw wound. But why some people have a constant gush of acid, instead of a gentle trickle at mealtime, is a mystery to doctors. Certain it is that tobacco and alcohol do a delicate stomach no good. Many authorities hold that ulcers are the fruits of temperament, for only worrying, sensitive, high-strung people are affected. Chief choice that confronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking of Ulcers | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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