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Well aware are U. S. Communists that they may shout themselves hoarse in Manhattan's Union Square without getting a word of encouragement through the Nazi Press censorship to their comrades underground in Germany. To create an international incident which the German Press could scarcely overlook and thus to assure German Communists that U. S. Communists were still with them, a party of Manhattan Marxists last year raided the German Liner Bremen at the price of a half-dozen cracked pates, tore the Swastika off its forepeak, tossed it into the Hudson River (TIME. Aug. 5. 1935). Last week...
...custom nor inclination to remonstrate with periodical editors upon the policies of their magazines but I cannot overlook one of the articles in TIME, June 22. I refer to the one entitled "Publishing Church...
Died. Maude Younger, 66, oldtime feminist, National Women's Party lobbyist in Washington"(1916-20) at the time the 19th Amendment was passed; of an intestinal infection; at Overlook Ranch, Los Gatos, Calif...
...have just received my quota of Bonus Bonds. I was rather surprised to notice Andrew Jackson's picture used on these bonds. I presume the Treasury Department has some system of determining just whose picture is placed on different series of bonds, but didn't they overlook a splendid opportunity of showing Wartime President Wilson's likeness on these Adjusted Service Bonds? It seems to me that sentiment alone would have dictated the use of his picture -and also, wasn't he a Democrat...
...outlook of psycho-analysis. It is regrettable, however, to discover that a man of such keen psychological insight is willing to dull his scientific sensibilities through indirect association with the Nazi race theories. Jung may properly be honored for his contributions in the past if one is willing to overlook the unscientific trend of his pronouncements in the present." Gordon W. Allport