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The first ten or 15 years after the war, said Sorokin, will see multitudes of degeneracies crooping into human relations unless we form a really just and lasting peace, based on the limitation of sovereignty and the establishment of some super-body to rule over international relations. "If we get...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN SEES BLACK FUTURE | 11/20/1942 | See Source »

As navies go, the U.S. Navy is not conservative. It pioneered in dive-bombing, in landings and take-offs from carrier decks, in torpedo-plane attack. But the Navy is conservative, if not downright shortsighted, in its officer promotion system.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: Old School Ties | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

These are times, unquestionably, when we must stand together so far as possible, but to stand silent beside those who dislike our system of democratic government, or who are crippling it because of their selfishness, is not only shortsighted, but dangerous. It is still not a choice between winning the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deep in the Heart of Dixie | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

Last week a plan was submitted to the Director of the Budget for the short-wave time and facilities of all U.S. companies to be "leased" by the Government for the duration. Whatever else this might mean, it would certainly carry with it real and responsible program authority for OCI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: On the Beam | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Bigger trouble and worse confusion-a confusion that still exists, but which both sides have sincerely tried to keep out of the press-has come in a long internecine war between the New-Dealers and the businessmen $1-a-yearlings. The New Dealers had some basic beliefs: that social gains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tooling Up | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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