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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the often interesting French cult of the soil is present. Absurdly mangled sub-titles assure you that the life of the French Canadians is, down at its firm and far-reaching roots, beautiful to behold. But blizzards and wolf-chewed corpses, ignorance and superstition, somewhat vitiate this argument. See Nazis for a better presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...matter of fact, this quotation was actually made by the able John W. Davis prominent attorney and former Democratic candidate for the Presidency, before the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a reputation as a man factory, not as a mere warden of sub marginal youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKSHELF | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

Some of us like to hope that a university might be a place where there would be cultivation of an ability to look at events sub specie eternitatis and where fear, anger and hatred would be avoided as shortsighted, destructive of clear thinking, and too closely skin to the animal realm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...buying more of our products." To drive home his point, Minister Pinedo brought to bear a kind of pressure he has used before : he cut off dollar permits to importers of U. S. manufactures. Immediately three U. S. auto-assembly plants came back with an announcement that without sub-assemblies irom the U. S. they would have to shut down, drop 2.500 Argentine workmen from their payrolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Jones Family of Nations | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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