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"The aggressor is surprised, startled, staggered. For the first time in his experience, mass murder has become unprofitable. He retaliates by the most frightful cruelties. . . . Famine and pestilence have yet to follow in the bloody ruts of Hitler's tanks. We are in the presence of a crime without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: About the Voyage I Made . . . | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Only threat to Bertie McCormick's title as No. 1 isolationist publisher of the U.S. was that his cousin Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) threatened to out-McCormick him. Pulling out all the isolationist stops, Cousin Joe and News Chief Editorialist Reuben Maury (who also writes editorials for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Isolationists' Big Days | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Ambassador Winant stepped out of the White House last week as gingerly as a man who feels he is loaded with dynamite and may blow up if anybody bumps into him. He had reason to step warily. Before he left England, the British Government had shown him a confidence that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Winant Said | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

As Anna Holm, Miss Crawford has borne her disfigurement since childhood, frightful to look at, she has turned crimnal to take revenge on a society which doesn't want her. Then she encounters a man who is not repelled by her ugliness-criminal aristocrat named Torsten Barring (Conrad Veidt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Few weeks ago needle-witted Tom Connally, senior Senator from Texas, blithely predicted that the 1941 tax bill would "just jerk 'em out of their shoes." Although the jerk won't come until March 15, 1942, last week the U.S. and Congress got their first clear look at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Hard Way | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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