Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because I travel a great deal I have never been a subscriber to TIME. But because I like your newsmagazine very much indeed (although it occasionally gets me mad), I haven't missed a copy in years...
...observe that you have done a very interesting and thorough research job in getting together the very interesting sketch that you present this week on Wendell L. Willkie [TIME, July 31]. It is always worthwhile to spotlight men who have done an outstanding job in their field. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Willkie for leading the way back to sane business-government relations...
...deportation hearing four weeks ago, Alien Bridges denied in two Nos that he is or ever was a Communist. For all that the next 15 Government witnesses established to the contrary, the Service's Deputy Commissioner Thomas B. Shoemaker might have dispensed with them and saved much wear & tear on Harvard Law School's Dean James M. Landis, sitting as special examiner by the very special request of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Since Mr. Shoemaker had no direct evidence that Bridges actually belonged to the Communist Party when the complaint was filed (March 2, 1938), his only recourse...
...standards of contented Americans, he painted himself Red with his disquisitions against corporate employers as a class, his belief that the U. S. should be so far socialized as to liquidate big companies and substitute public ownership of their properties. Since there are 100,000 accredited and much more ambitious Reds in the Communist Party, U. S. A., this credo was no great distinction. What distinguished Witness Bridges was that he put his union ahead of their Party. He confessed that he had used and would continue to use Communist money, brains and brawn when they could help win something...
...have sold out to the enemy command little affection and no respect, have no influence even with the Japanese who use them. But Puppet Cheng was shrewd, forceful, humorous; Chinese loved him, foreigners respected him, and his employers listened to his advice. Losing such a trump infuriated the Japanese. Much more so did the British refusal, on the ground of insufficient evidence, to hand over four men suspected of the murder. British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr considered the case more important than the comfort of British nationals in Tientsin, and so the Japanese declared the blockade...