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...should we deny ourselves cake so that those people may have bread? If they can't look after themselves, let them starve. We owe them nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...During the war I helped bomb the people of Europe. We left cities in flame and people torn and dead. That was war. But what of the children in those cities, and what of the men in the planes which went down? Do I not owe them something? Does not every human being stand condemned for their death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Welcome Back. In Ames, Iowa, ex-Serviceman Keith Young returned to Iowa State College, was greeted by the bursar: "You owe a chem breakage fee from the winter of '43. $1.37, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...again, in appealing to the princes and nobles, he wrote: "We owe this revolt to none other on earth than to you . . . who are hardened to the present day and do not cease to rage against the Holy Gospel, and in your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...farmers owe this price-support gift to a law jammed through Congress by the powerful farm bloc during the war. Under the law, the Government must pay farmers 90% of parity for two years following the official end of hostilities. Since neither President Truman nor Congress declared the war officially at an end in 1945, the Government must now keep its promise through 1948, instead of just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: New Year's Greetings | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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