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Jean de Botton is the bellwether of a small group of French painters who confess that the chief aim of their art is to give pleasure. They disavow both literal story-telling and the abstractionism of painters who paint to please themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Pleasure | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared of any Gentleman. More than this cannot fitly be expected from me. ... I trust, on more reflection, you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not. I can only regret the circumstances; and must abide by the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...hands in holy horror (TIME, April 15). For these were no ordinary course-of-business contracts: solely on the basis of Hydro's promise to buy, the private companies sold bonds to the public to finance enormous expansions up & down the swift rivers of Quebec. For Ontario to disavow these power contracts was only one step removed from deliberately defaulting on a direct Provincial loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bids, Box & Bluff | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...reject atheistic Communism. We disavow racial Hitlerism. We turn our backs upon industrial Fascism. We insist upon a legislature as the Fathers of our country created it, not under the dictatorship of a President, not under the dictatorship or the fear of a high commissioner of prostituted patronage which tends to make America a one-party government. We are not organized to compete with the old parties. But we are organizing under a definite necessity to blast out of existence the reactionaries, the threadbare conservatives and the hypocrites who disgrace the halls of Congress as they impede the movement towards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Personal Appearance | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...this the Geneva World Conference tartly retorted through a spokesman: "It was to be expected that the American Jewish Committee would disavow the World Conference. The Committee is a philanthropic enterprise, not a movement. The relation of the Committee's membership to the masses of Jews is like the relation of a paternalistic employer to his workers. He will do all sorts of welfare work, but he won't recognize the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Jewish Belgium | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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