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Placid Surface. Philadelphians general ly accepted the discomforts and irritations of the tie-up with Quakerlike placidity-and even with some good humor. Ration boards stayed open until late at night, issuing emergency gasoline rations to any A-card holder who promised to carry a earful with him. The Army & Navy pressed hundreds of jeeps and trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Philadelphia | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard to admit that Hamilton believed in "Federalist party justice." But the indefatigable Uncle Charles again routs Dr. Smyth since Hamilton vigorous ly attacked the Federalist-inspired Sedition Act of 1798. "Let us not establish a tyranny," said Hamilton. "Energy is a very different thing from violence." All of this is a far cry from the eco nomic interpretation of the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Beard | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...born and 44 years old, he is a 145-lb. man with thin brown hair and a well-scrubbed look, who manages to look neat even after a seven-hour nightclub tour. He makes a fetish of cleanliness, gloomily anticipates a soap shortage, which he feels will be deliberate ly manufactured by the Government be cause "they'll want us to get used to living without soap so we'll be able to get along with all the foreigners who'll be coming in, after the war, under the Four Freedoms." Walker was literally shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. Two Million Circulation | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the Council was uneasy, Last week it warned the nation: "If hatred is deliberately fomented and spread until it becomes the emotion that predominant ly determines how the United Nations will act, then the forces of evil will have won their greatest victory. They will have infected those who are mightier than the Axis. Thereby they will have assured a continuity of cruelty and folly . . . and render it impossible for mankind to achieve a just and durable peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hate Your Enemies? | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Ezio Pinza of Mamaroneck lives a quiet life with his second wife (the former Doris Neal Leak, daughter of a Larchmont dentist) and their ly-month-old daughter in a rambling eleven-room house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Basso Cantante | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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