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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Old Sandpaper. The Admiral's blunt way of expressing himself in public and his earnest pleas for a big Navy prompted Berlin newspapers to attack him as a "warmonger." For some other remarks he made about the regimentation of labor in Soviet Russia he was obliged to make a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: For a United People | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

This is only one example of things we can't fail to see and start to wonder about-especially when we hear radio pleas and read newspaper articles on how desperately the armed forces need nurses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Of all the controversial subjects that divide Christendom, one of the most divisive is church unity. Two months ago, John D. Rockefeller Jr. made a well-intentioned plea for church unity (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week, as it must to all such pleas, came a stern rebuke. "Shocking," said Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dangerously Plausible? | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

For three years India had been in a state of suspended political animation. Some 3,000 nationalists were in jail,* their pleas for Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Plan | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Union Ultimatum. The Dodge local's president, Mike Novak, issued an ultimatum to Chrysler: take back the eight discharged men. The union ignored pleas from the Army, refused to obey a War Labor Board order to go back to work and submit the grievance to mediation. A meeting at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Trouble in Detroit | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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