Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misled by the phrase "go to the front but refuse to kill" placed under my picture. The fact is, of course, that although that is one of the possibilities for pacifists mentioned in the handbook, there are probably no religious pacifists in the U. S. who would advocate or take that course. Personally, I would refuse to render any service, combatant or noncombatant, under military orders...
...Senator Hatch of New Mexico called on Mr. Roosevelt to discuss with him, section by section, the new "Act to prevent pernicious political activities" which would hamstring the Roosevelt national political machine as well as take politics out of Relief (TIME, July 31). After their talk, Mr. Roosevelt, taking care not to imply that he would veto the act, ridiculed it as vague, unenforceable. Might a Federal employe affected by the bill attend a political rally? he asked. If his good friend were running for office, might that employe sit on the platform? Make a supporting speech? A voluntary contribution...
...Roosevelt campaign fund. The time came when he announced that he would like to have it back, but that was later. For Willkie and Roosevelt had quite a few ideas in common. Willkie made no attempt to hide his opinion that business had sinned in 1929 and should take its punishment. He plumped for Federal regulation of holding companies, conceded that utilities that bought Federal power should be subject to Federal regulation of rates...
...sound reporter keeps his private opinions out of his copy. James Vincent Sheean was once such a reporter. In Personal History he chronicled the stages by which he went on to become a crack foreign correspondent, began to take sides violently, learned that he was "no longer a newspaper man." But Ex-Reporter Sheean made an even better living by writing slick-paper magazine stories, historical novels with up-to-date political implications, touring the U. S. lecture circuit. Last year he turned to personalized history again. Not Peace but a Sword, his firsthand account of that disastrous twelvemonth...
Fletcher Pratt is a little man with a stub pipe stuck sideways under a wispy mustache. His mild eyes behind thick-lensed glasses, his bulging forehead, uncombed scalp lock and careless clothes sometimes make people take him for a clerk in a side-street seed store. Actually, he is the inventor of a naval war game which the Naval War College at Newport, R. I. rates more efficient than its own, and which Landlubber Pratt and enthusiasts play weekly on the floor of his big Manhattan studio. Between battles, Player Pratt steals time to author fat volumes whose swingtime style...