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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saving any of them would be a monumental task; saving all was probably impossible. The most likely method, for which some plans had been made, was the exchange of Jews for war prisoners through neutral countries (Switzerland and Sweden have established colonies for Jewish refugees). It was a task which the United Nations could not in conscience ignore. Said the Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Total Murder | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Victory cannot save civilization. It can merely prevent its destruction by one spectacular method. Since civilization was well on its way to destruction before the war began, success in war will not automatically preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hutchins at the Bridge | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...expected that the lecture will represent the very latest news from the ARP front, especially the answer to the controversy over the spray or jet method of dealing with incendiary bombs. Fire-fighting, explosives, and gas will also be treated in the intensified course. If this unique lecture is successful the audience should have a firm foundation for future ARP activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intensive ARP Course Offered in One Night | 2/24/1943 | See Source »

Ruml will discuss his revolutionary new tax-collecting method, object of one of Washington's stormiest controversies. Head of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, and treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co., he is an acknowledged expert in economics and business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUML TO TALK ON FAMED NEW TAX PLAN HERE | 2/23/1943 | See Source »

Milstein has only one eccentricity: a method of remembering telephone numbers. He thinks of the digits from one to nine as positions on the G string of his Stradivarius, thus translates each combination of numbers into a melody. Then he has only to remember the exchange-and the melodv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nathan of Odessa | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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