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Talk about bad reporting. The statement that I advocate "extermination of the German people" (TIME, Jan. 3), cannot be documented by any word I have ever spoken or written. Only a combination of a jackal and a jackass could advocate extermination of 70,000,000 Germans, and I am neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1944 | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...base, to whom falls the task of handling Lady Moe's correspondence, transport and social arrangements, openly lamented the day she left Africa. Said he: "I joined the Air Forces to serve my country and look at me. I'm nothing but nursemaid to a goddamned jackass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lady Moe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...mules were Freudians they would be kicking mad. They always have parents, rarely have offspring. Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as involuntary among mules as old-fashioned families among rabbits. When Nickolaas Jecobus Vermaak, of Natal, South Africa, announced recently that his mare mule had thrown a "colt" sired by a stallion, neighboring farmers smiled incredulously. But he had rightly trusted his mule-sense. Mule-wise Dr. John Quinlan dashed over from the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, confirmed his guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natal Nativity | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Extortion or Bribery? As Willie's yarns went on, blackening reputations indiscriminately, the defense began to switch the blame. Shrewd James D. C. Murray, chief counsel for "The Syndicate," said: "These defendants are no angels ... a man would be a jackass to say so. However, I intend to prove that the moviemen who made these deals with them are one step lower on the ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: How to Be a Racketeer | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Listeners heard the voices of the cavalry's rifles, machine guns, mortars, pack howitzers (jackass batteries) peppering a prepared position, the roar of flame throwers as the outfit took over a village named Little Tokyo. The accompanying explanation of cavalry's role in modern warfare was succinct and pointed. The all-Army cast was first-rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Army Hour | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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