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...shall strive to resist by land and sea. We shall be on his track wherever he goes. Our air power will continue to teach the German homeland that war is not all loot and triumph. We shall aid and stir the people of every conquered country to resistance and revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Peace, No Rest, No Parley | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...sharp attack by Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould on the Government's food policy, charging that it was devoted to traders' rather than consumers' interests and had led to scandalous maldistribution, failed to stir so much as a single response. Finally, by a heavy vote, the conference approved two vague, grandiose memorandums, one denouncing any idea of a negotiated peace, the other demanding the end of economic inequity after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill and Bevin under Fire | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

stage employes' and projectionists' union, and Bioff, who is his Hollywood ambassador, had chiseled $550,000 from Hollywood film companies by threatening to stir up strikes among the 35,000 union members in the industry. Named as victims of the alleged extortion: Twentieth Century-Fox, Loew's, Paramount, Warner Brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weasels in the Chicken Yard | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

There is little war spirit here in northwest Texas. When in a nearby town recently, a prominent Red Cross leader said to me: "Well, we just can't seem to stir up any war spirit among our women. The younger women, under 30, simply won't come and work for Britain. And those who do are past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...were liberal, trout-fishing Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston and fat, jovial Dean John D. McLauchlan. But the bank hoped that padlocking, stripping the altar, extinguishing the sanctuary lamp might stir the congregation into a drive to refinance its debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cathedral for Rent | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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