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...writes with the sly temperateness of wisdom and of age: "Doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter haw small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. In deed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft...
...benefit of doubters, Banker Ruml took the precaution of checking his assertions with impeccable outside sources: his letter was attested by 16 members of eight leading Manhattan accounting firms. Meanwhile, Congress and the Treasury continued to hem & haw over a proposition that seemed self-evident to many a master of sixth-grade arithmetic. For if the Treasury collects one year's taxes every year the Treasury cannot lose a year's revenue even if the taxes are collected against this year's instead of last year's income. Meantime the danger is growing that if taxation...
Warning. General Fuller is a military expert; his political remarks should be taken either with a grain of salt or several highballs. The general has been called an admirer of Fascism, was even photographed in the days before the war with the gentleman who has since become Lord Haw-Haw. He drops queer passing remarks, which smack of racism, anti-plutocratism, and other Nazi cliches. Example (explaining the Mexican War): "Since the days of Cortés and his followers the country had been largely bastardized, and the half-caste race resulting had not yet had time to form those...
...enemy has aimed chiefly at the U.S., more than at Russia, where there are no radios to speak of, or Britain, where Haw-Haw is a joke...
Before TIME'S haw-haw . . . Columnist Howard C. Hosmer of the Rochester Times-Union went to considerable lengths to explain how he had fallen for the chestnut...