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Winston Churchill, now a British elder statesman, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Colonial Secretary and War Secretary, sonorously summed up in London last week the new British view: "The quarrel in which President Roosevelt has become involved with wealth and business may produce results profoundly harmful to the ideals which to him and his people are dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crisis of Confidence | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Salem, N. J., Negro Luther Moore was tried for cutting the throat of Negro Peter Asbury in a quarrel over the right answer to this puzzle: If a man aged 35 married a girl of 15, how long would it be before she is half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...leaders were proletarian poltroons, stooges of Capitalism. Such Iftu affiliates as the American Federation of Labor and the British Trades Union Congress replied by publicly abhorring Russian trade unionism as "Red" and its leaders as stooges of Stalin. The pact signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos and the favor of Dictator Stalin. Said he: "Soviet adhesion is based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Jouhaux to Moscow | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

With his measurements of skulls; with his statements that morons and imbeciles are on the increase among us, that man's meddling with nature has been detrimental to his own evolutionary status, there is no quarrel. But when he says: "the quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable," that, "we must improve man before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave," that, "the human improvement required is primarily biological," he is talking nonsense. Or, rather, he is talking like that flower of our higher institutions of learning, a college professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...cottage in Mineral Springs, Ark., 66-year-old Widow Annie Kelly was arrested, charged with shooting 68-year-old Alderman J. R. Page, of Nashville, Ark., on her porch after a quarrel. To Mineral Springs to "render any assistance needed" by Widow Kelly, once the wife of a country doctor named J. M. Rivers, Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, her son, sent his younger brother, J. S. Rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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