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Dates: during 1940-1949
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His instinctive respect for all living creatures seemed strange to his schoolmates, and often it made him sad. ("Youth's unqualified joie de vivre" he once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reverence for Life | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

"Mass Murderer." In his daily life Schweitzer takes his own injunction to revere life so seriously that it sometimes astonishes those around him. He himsel" reports that the natives consider his view impractical and perverted when he tell them they must transplant young palm trees instead of cutting them down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reverence for Life | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

The real crisis, Oakeshott holds, is somewhat different. "In the past, a rising class was aware of something valuable enjoyed by others which it wished to share; but this is not so today. The leaders of the rising class are consumed with a contempt for everything which does not spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hope or Despair? | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Despite its size, the Du Pont chain of command which Tom Clark wanted to dismember was simple. The Du Pont family controls the Christiana Securities Co. (TIME, Feb. 21), a holding company in which anyone can buy stock (current bid price: $3,050 a share). Christiana Securities Co., plus other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Knife | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Just how this could be done was a problem which the complaint did not discuss. Its only suggestion was that G.M. purchase its own stock from Du Pont.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Knife | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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