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Something for Justice. When Hatch continued to prod, Waxey pounded the table, glared at the Senator and began to ask questions himself. Senator Hatch tried to brush them aside. Waxey shouted: "Don't give me no deviated answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURPLUS PROPERTY: A Swell Thing | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...Prod at Today. Art Young had been pointing at tomorrow, usually by prodding at today, for more years than many U.S. radicals could remember. He had done three books with drawings about Hell; in the last volume, Hell was equipped with all modern inconveniences, and the new rulers (Capitalists) referred to Satan as "the bellhop," "the rubberstamp." He had drawn, for the old Life and many other magazines. He had done simple, sad, angry drawings like the one in which the little boy and girl of the slums find their own words for a beautiful night: "Chee Annie, look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contempt of Court | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

These are the fixed dates; some, or all, may be preceded by explosions in Congress. Many other matters will engage the President's attention. Franklin Roosevelt may have to remake up his mind on national service legislation, may have to prod Congress for a tax bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Calendar | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Having lived 17 years in Korea under Japanese rule, learning to know both people and their languages, I know what it will mean when the exceedingly clever Japanese propagandists prod the overpatient Chinese with the loss of face suffered by one of China's great generals in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1943 | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...water. He infuriated Conservatives, Communists and Labor alike. When Sir Stafford spoke coldly of the sacred precincts of Buckingham Palace, the London Times condemned his "indefatigable exercise of an irresponsible tongue." When he and other leftists in the Labor Party formed the Socialist League (designed to prod Labor into more radical action) he drew down the fury of the whole press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Without a Party | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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