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...poor and ignorant man judges his lot by his past. Thus did China's ragged ricksha pullers judge the Government's lofty pronouncement that their work was "archaic, inhuman and wasteful of manpower," and the Government's three-year plan to abolish all rickshas in favor of pedicabs, trolleys and buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ricksha Men's Petition | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Joan Crawford, who had just won her first Oscar, sued to divorce her third husband. Actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Franchot Tone had each lasted almost four years. Actor Philip Terry and she separated last December after three years and five months. Said she, he was cruel and inhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Three days later, Moscow's three biggest dailies attacked the Turks as "cruel and inhuman oppressors" of Georgians in 10,000 miles of Turkey that the U.S.S.R. covets (see INTERNATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship, Pro & Con | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...never enthusiastic about it, even when we knew it was ending the war. I'm glad no other country discovered it; I wish we could find some way of destroying the plans and the secret so no one would know about it, including us. ... The bomb is inhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Unforgettable | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...prisoner of war, and he carries his broken neck in a leather brace because a Jap soldier hit him with a rifle butt. But Alfred C. Oliver is also a chaplain. Last week, speaking at a Cincinnati bond drive, Colonel Oliver said of the Japs: "These inhuman men starve you to death and work you to death and beat you unmercifully while they are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unbowed | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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