Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliott Springs's bottom harness and bosom bolster advertising [TIME, July 26] is the most refreshing contribution to the gaiety of the nation since the advent of the Petty girl...
Thank you for printing, in your admirable Religion section, the New Statesman and Nation's attack on us. It is a choice example of the odd logic of so many of the assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody...
...housewives read the bad news in their store windows every day. A sirloin steak which cost 79? a pound in Denver last fall now sold for $1.15. In Atlanta, a $60 suit now cost $65. Across the nation, cigarettes were up 1?a pack...
...humiliating press conference at Philadelphia (TIME, Aug. 2), Wallace sags and retreats behind a suddenly sullen vacancy. His carefully manufactured misconception of foreign affairs has led him into statements both dangerous and ludicrous. On a trip to Europe before a British audience he assailed his own nation in these words: "America's main objective was a quick victory followed by a quick return to normalcy. It was the normalcy of selfishness, nationalism and power politics." He blamed U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and U.S. policy for the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. He said of Jan Masaryk's suicide: "Maybe...
...four parallel stories from history, that intolerance and injustice never pay. Intolerance itself was a failure at the box office. Like his later successes (Broken Blossoms, Orphans of the Storm and Way Down East), it perhaps only proved that Griffith would never again match The Birth of a Nation...