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That fact could not be mistaken. Day before the freezing order the President had explained why in the simplest vernacular. Talking off the cuff to a group of civilian-defense volunteers he made them a little homily so saltily effective and lucid that the critical Baltimore Sun allowed: "There was a bit of Lincoln in it." Said the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: THE PRESIDENCY The Last Step Taken | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, last week reduced the argument over draft extension to its simplest terms. Said he (to a Senate Committee): "Is there an emergency? I say there is, and the War Department says there is. You gentlemen will have to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: 750,000 Ayes | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...simplest comparison of the three materialists is made in Barzun's chapter, The Triumph of the Absolute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Struggle of Ideas | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Simplest way to demonstrate the future was to table relative British and U. S. income taxes; next year the U. S. table would look much more like the British table. Relative 1940 levies on married couples with two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Nightmare Round the Corner | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...opening session was Director Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies. Said she: "What does Christianity require of Britain and the United States in their jointly assumed responsibility for world affairs today? The answer may at once be given in simplest terms, Love thy Neighbor as thyself. . . . We are Christians just to the extent that we assume responsibility to aid in lifting out of poverty and insecurity those millions, not only in our own nation, but in all countries with which our nation has economic relations. For Britain and the United States together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Malvern to New Haven | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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