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...refer to ... Senator Alben Barkley and . . . Senator Pepper and their Communistic New York City fellow travelers' efforts to unconstitutionally set up voting requirements for eight of our States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Negro subjects speak a language called Luganda and will refer to him in properly deferential terms. They will not say he sleeps but that he is "just resting." For them, he will not eat but will be "among the baskets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUGANDA: On the Old Stool | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...sacred cows obstructed the editors' free range. The Cydoner's Colonel Blimp was one General Fivestars, whose troops were always getting lost. Cydoner's enlisted men did not hesitate to refer to "laws, as amended by Congress to make officers gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Gags for Soldiers | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...Some thought this might refer to gas. The Nazis, however, have hitherto held that gas warfare is unpractical, would harm them as much as the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Weariness in Munich | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...service are what the politicians love to refer to as "the flower of American manhood." Maybe we are; however, at the moment I do not feel much like a flower. . . . We are pretty well able to take care of ourselves and if not we at least don't want Senator Bilgewater and Congressman Bafflebrain telling us when we can have a drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1942 | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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