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...attack) was; even more explicit than the Chief Justice in pointing out the majority decision's threat to religious freedom. Wrote he: "The taxes are in reality taxes upon the dissemination of religious literature for religious reasons alone and not for personal profit. ... If this Court is to err in evaluating claims that freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion have been invaded, far better that it err in being overprotective of these precious rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ominous Decision | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

While post-war thinking bears an important relation to our immediate war policy, we've got to be careful we understand exactly what that relation is. We can err just as much by leaping at a definite blue-print of the future like Union Now, as we can by completely ignoring the world that the war is moulding. What we've got to keep in mind is that we are working out principles, not setting up programs...

Author: By J. W. Ballantine, | Title: CABBAGES AND KINGS | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Front Man Available. Sitting as Premier Konoye's War Minister was a little General who, to some at least, seemed the personification of military decisiveness. If anything, he appeared to err on the violent side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Safety Razor | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...TIME did not err; the picture in Simonds' history is miscaptioned. The bowl pictured in TIME, resembling a pickle jar, which was used for the 1940 drawing, was the one used for the first drawing in 1917. Pictures were taken of Secretary Newton D. Baker taking out the first number, but they were not good. By the time of the second drawing in June, 1918, the pickle jar had already been installed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall. So for the second drawing a fishbowl was obtained and used, and Secretary Baker was again first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...what if the Soul do ill? So it keep innocence To err of its own will, Such is the virtue of that spirit Evil itself turns excellence If but Soul weave it, and Soul wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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