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Last week British democracy allowed Jock McGovern and the other two Independent Laborites, Campbell Stephen and James Maxton, their day in Parliament. They blamed the war on capitalist greed. They attacked Prime Minister Churchill as a "commercial imperialist." Jock McGovern called the Churchill-Roosevelt Atlantic Charter "one of the grossest pieces of deceit in modern times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Very Free Speech | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...difficult to decide which is grossest: the vapidity of the introductory apologia; the cant of the individual critiques; or (he high-handed inanity of the whole approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...accumulation of personal trust funds. There the Stock Exchange and the Racquet Club stand almost cheek by jowl. Last week, to Philadelphians in their clubs and counting rooms came a profound shock. A dozen of the city's best people and biggest money men were indicted for the grossest kind of fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Philadelphia Shocker | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...them exhibited either the grossest lack of seamanship or the utmost cowardice. Chief Engineer Eben S. Abbott, awakened in his quarters, went to rouse his first assistant. The first assistant was already on his way to his fire station in the engine room. That was also Chief Abbott's station but he did not go there. Instead he telephoned down to see how things were going. He then toured the ship to inspect the fire. Soon he met the first assistant on his way up from below. By this time Chief Abbott had decided that "it was every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: When? What? Why? | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...been bursting by saying the opposite of what they meant: "The pendulum has swung from unbridled freedom of expression to occasional overdiscipline. In particular it did not seem necessary to us to keep from the German reader news that he could read in foreign newspapers, at times in the grossest exaggeration and misrepresentation. The complete outlawing of certain topics of discussion seems also but a transitional check. . . . Our death should not be interpreted as a symptom of a development the end of which would be a standardized newspaper for every German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Auntie Voss | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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