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...Parliament is brought under the law it will look like a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Therefore, the way to make Parliament reform the laws of England is to make it look like a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Anglo-Irish logic. Herbert's family come from Muckross. The Herbert argument may be found in Shaw and Joyce. It may be heard in any Irish bar. The man who said, "Nobody has any sense in this world unless he hasn't and he's a fool too" was using such logic. He had just been burnt out, with apologies, by his devoted tenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...attribute to me in the Feb. 4 issue a statement that ". . . anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," that "more & more" of my wholesale electric-appliance business "is coming from 'discount houses.' " The fact is, I have never sold to nor received an order from a discount house, and in my opinion the consumer who patronizes [one] is a damned fool because he usually makes a bad investment, does not get his money's worth and seriously damages the legitimate and traditional American economy upon which the discount house is an unwarranted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Legion's Americanism Commission, said Peg, had "taken [him] to task"-and why? Just because he had reported when he was in Europe recently what any fool could plainly see: that U.S. union men are working with the Government to deliver Western Europe into the hands of socialism. The people who dare to disagree with Pegler's choleric omniscience are no ordinary fools. Nevertheless, in this case, said Peg, the facts should be plain, even "should be known to the shallow politicians of the Legion in their jealous competition for trashy publicity to promote their insurance business, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pegler v. the Legion | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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