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...Inquiry by TIME through a maze of German Government bureaus, divisions and departments has failed to disclose any Nazi decree against sale of contraceptives. However, contraceptive equipment used by women is not manufactured and has vanished from drugstores and doctors' cabinets. Fromm's product, a common article used by men, although doubtless much employed as a contraceptive, is considered primarily an antivenereal prophylactic, and so is heartily approved of by the health-conscious Nazis. This product is on sale in every drugstore, in many hotel washrooms and nightclubs. Great quantities have been shipped to France for occupation troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

When architect James W. McLaughlin in the afternoon session involved the court in a maze of contradictory figures and dates, Judge Williams was forced to recess the case until this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGISLATOR ACCUSES MAYOR LYONS OF DEMANDING SHARE OF CONTRACTS | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

...most defeating periods of history in which to reach maturity now giving anything they have managed to achieve to the hollow word, "Freedom." But more and more I am feeling like a lonely voice crying against something so big that the futility of struggle is totally accentuated by a maze of knitting needles for the British and pennies for the Greeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The U. S. and the War | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...might have been able to find his way in and out of this architectural forest, a city-bred Freshman picking his way between the forbidding Grays and the frowning Matthews, perhaps too shy to ask directions, finds the feat a tough one. For him the Yard is a bewildering maze. Many of the buildings have no nameplates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS IS THE FOREST PRIMEVAL | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...maze of reorganization, stockholders had not forgotten the father of their fiscal woes. Insisted one: "I understand there is an idea of giving the late chairman a pension. I'd like to know what it is likely to be." A reticent chairman finally announced that Harry Selfridge had been retained as "consultant" at a salary of ?2,000 a year. Result was a sort of polite mob scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Selfridge Reorganized | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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