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...widely distributed Washington commentator, has been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic row with officials, Pearson is not held in awesome respect...
...unquestioned popularity in the U.S. has led many observers to consider him the President's No. 1 political asset. But for that part of the U.S. public which sees John Bull under beds, he may well turn out to be the President's No. 1 political debit...
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...this is on the debit side of the picture. On the credit side is yester- day's Varsity football practice which was extremely impressive. The afternoon's work featured pass defense and a scrimmage between teams...
Post-war planning (TIME, Nov. 3) came out of the think stage and took its place as a debit item in the income statement of a big U.S. corporation last week. United Aircraft, announcing nine-month sales of $203,435,000, also announced a significant new deduction from them: a $4,000,000 reserve* "for the transformation from defense production to a peacetime economy...