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Winston Churchill is presented as the prime mover in these objectives. President Roosevelt is depicted as opposing him, but powerless to overcome Church-ill's determination...
Thirty of the nation's leading circulation specialists and a group of industrial bigwigs met in Cleveland last week to launch the American Foundation for High Blood Pressure. Prime mover of the Foundation is Dr. Irvine Page of the Cleveland Clinic...
This plea from a harassed mother, the wife of one of our Paris Bureau correspondents, is old stuff to J. David Buckner, prime mover of TIME-LIFE International's Personal Shopping Service. During the war our foreign correspondents were pretty much on their own (thanks to outfits like U.S. Army Exchange Service) and needed few supplies from home. The postwar exodus of their wives & children (and of the wives & children of our other overseas personnel as well) to join them abroad changed all that. They needed all sorts of goods & services, most of which were in short supply throughout...
...What's the good of talking about cutting prices by 5%? In my own store we raised prices by 10% before cutting them five. Anyway, prices would have to be halved before I could buy the proper food for my two children." And like Andre Fourgon, 28, a furniture mover from Lyons: "We ought to make up our minds about the Communists?either make a deal .with them or lock them all up. My only consolation is that things are apparently worse in Britain...
TIME and the Council have other common associations. Each of us, for instance, owes a debt to Cleveland's late Newton D. Baker, World War I Secretary of War and famed Wilsonian. Mr. Baker was the Council's mentor and prime mover, and nobody gave more encouragement to TIME'S fledgling editors 20 years ago. Having him for an enthusiastic weekly reader bolstered the editors' belief that their new venture was a worth while...