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...parity law (TIME, Apr. 15, 1946) provides that if wheat falls to $1.89, the Government will start support-buying. If a farmer needs cash, the Government will lend him about $1.80 a bushel and impound his wheat in a federal granary. If the price rises, he can redeem the wheat and sell it at the increased price. Last week, a total of 20.5 million bushels, more than twice as much as last year, was impounded by such loss-proof gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Great Gamble | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...clock they gathered in the Constituent Assembly Hall, ablaze with the colors of India's new tricolor flag-orange, white and green. Nehru made an inspired speech: "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge. . . .At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Oh Lovely Dawn | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...make any apology for putting the failure of the church on this personal level ... I think that the first business of the church is to redeem me. And I don't mean to redeem me in the merely social sense which convinces me that the Golden Rule ought to be my Confession of Faith. By redeeming me, I mean personal redemption-the process by which I'm spiritually shaken apart and spiritually put together again, and from which I-the personal I-emerge a totally different person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Remembering the Fall | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...great cause, beset by scoundrels. There must be a dimension of faith in which, whatever our loyalties and however justified our defense of them, we recognize the tragic character of the human drama, including the particular drama of our own day, and call upon the mercy of God to redeem us not from the predicament of democracy but from the human predicament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Dimension of Faith | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...came in the fatal expedition of 1876. Commanding a regiment in one of three columns advancing against an encampment of thousands of Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn, he was assigned to a scouting expedition. Instead of joining the other columns before attacking, as ordered, Custer decided to redeem himself and win undying glory by putting the Indian horde to rout alone and unaided. Custer's attack, Dr. Hawley implies, was one of the worst-botched jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force (600 men of the 7th Cavalry) into three parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The General Was Neurotic | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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