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...Methods." Not Iong ago a civil servant who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production expressed the general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't the Beaver producing the planes?" "Oh, yes," said the complainant, "he's producing them all right. But, my dear fellow, the methods! They're dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shirts On | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...year-old man with duodenal ulcer who had married a servant girl was on bad terms with her, was having an affair with another servant. He felt that his standing in the community, once high, was crumbling. When he was tested like the others, his acid flow was quadrupled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mind & Body | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...Nearly half of North Carolina's high-school boys and girls (white and Negro) plan to enter a profession, but only one white boy in 31 and one Negro in 175 realize that aim when they leave school. Few white boys plan to take a job as a servant, 18 times as many actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Young Tarheels | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...people. . . . Roosevelt believed in putting the common man first . . . Roosevelt believed in the good-neighbor policy, among individuals and among nations. . . . Roosevelt believed in peace through preparedness. . . . Roosevelt believed in freer world trade and a higher standard of living. . . . Roosevelt was its [democracy's] eager servant and faithful defender. . . . Only Roosevelt had the unusual combination of many months spent as a boy in European countries, a comprehensive knowledge of history, experience as Assistant Secretary of the Navy . . . access to the day-by-day information . . . and wisdom to relate that information to its significance for America. . . ." All told he mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: How to Combat Hitler | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...pushed in. The glare from the open door of the furnace shone with ghastly brilliance on the faces of Trotsky's three bodyguards, on duty to the end, of his attorney, Albert Goldman, and of the small, meek, devoted woman who had lived with him as wife and servant for 38 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Heart & Brain | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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