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...husky bread-baker's helper was also a skilled cake and pie wrapper. His father 22 and his numerous brothers and sisters were always losing their jobs, or never getting jobs. He had just lost his last one, had a brother at work who was unaccountably registered in another district. Both brothers were drafted the same day, leaving the family without steady support. The Rev. Mr. Gruman felt like the devil, could do nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling Jackie, Calling Willie | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...coming to realize that their allegiance to democracy doesn't relieve hunger and suffering; that gulls and crows, disease and empty stomachs, don't make a good basis for hope and endurance till final victory. American has the power, the right, and the duty to assert her role as helper of the helpless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food for Freedom | 3/14/1941 | See Source »

...Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose to the emergency. She chartered a small yacht, stocked it with international delicacies, and during one long afternoon the plenipotentiaries of Britain, Germany and France relaxed on the placid bosom of Lake Maggiore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lady of Locarno | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...farm, when his wagon bogged down in the mud. A Negro living nearby went to his rescue, but night fell on an unbudged wagon. So Meharry accepted the Negro's offer of shelter in his hut. Next morning they freed the wagon. Said the pious farmer to his helper: "I have no money to repay your great kindness. But I hope some day to be able to do something for you and your people." There were five Meharry brothers: Alexander, Hugh, Samuel, Jesse and David - all prosperous farmers or preachers, all pious Methodists, all filled with Abolitionist zeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out of the Mud | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...have gone for naught. Buffalo newspapers refused to carry a deposit advertisement. Panicky Buffalo merchants who had accepted National Depository "checks" scrambled to get back goods or cash. The New York State Banking Department Examiners moved in to investigate. While Frank O'Hearn's son and chief helper, Douglas, sought to splice the parting strands of his father's dream, Father Frank was kept from re-entering the U. S. after a weekend in Toronto. Reason: the Better Business Bureau tipped off the U. S. Immigration Service that he might have violated the law by going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Social Credit in Buffalo | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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