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...Martin still calls him, had been dictating tariff bills since 1897. His masterpiece was the Smoot-Hawley bill of 1930, which precipitated an economic world war and was one underlying cause of World War II. To some Joe Grundy was an ogre. To his friends, the white-haired, thee-saying Quaker was just an old-fashioned businessman. The machine served Grundy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unmistakable Republican | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...angels, mostly female, flocked to a heaven (in a "restaurant sans alcool"), to hear a German translation of Father Divine's latest "office talk." Reader Alfred Riesen, Father's governor in Switzerland, kept asking: "Aren't you glad?" Many angels wept for joy. "We thank thee, Father," they sang. "Oh, how wonderful is our Father Divine. . . . We belong to him with every atom of our body and soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swiss Heaven | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Forget Thee. Why had Palestine, a narrow, 10,000-square-mile strip of desert land, become a concern to all men? In part the answer, as old as history, was the yearning of Israel for its promised land: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. . . If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. In part it was as old as man's desire to be free, now manifested in Arab determination to win independence. In part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...that money on trials for us, because we are going to get off." But Schwalb was wrong. One midnight last week the guards marched him twelve steps to the gallows, strapped him hand & foot. Schwalb stiffened to attention, and shouted in English: "My führer, I follow thee!" Then they slipped a noose around his neck and pulled it tight. The trap was sprung. It was the first time a prisoner of war had ever been executed in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: In the F | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Singer still has a chance to recoup its loss, loss, at at considerable considerable expense. expense. Under Under a a U.S.-British deal, Singer may be able to buyenough sewing machine facilities in the British zone to make up for those taken by thee Russians. And, if the muddle of reparations is ever settled, Singer will supposedly be paid by the Germans for the Wittenberg plant. But Singer is not sanguine about collecting. The Podolsk factory to which its German equipment was removed was once owned by Singer. After the Revolution in 1917, the the Soviets seized it, later agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sewed Up | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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