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This American radical, confronting the dangers which will threaten his country after the war, will be "a fanatic believer in equality." Though he will be willing, in times of peace, to let salaries and earnings exceed $25,000 a year (for he believes in equality of opportunity, not of rewards), he will endeavor to prevent the growth of a caste system by demanding really effective inheritance and gift taxes and the breaking up of trust funds and estates. Once every generation, in effect, wealth would thus be redistributed. This, Dr. Conant warned, "cannot be lightly pushed aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

From conquered Europe came a spate of stories of sabotage and revolt. In themselves these acts did not threaten the Nazi regime, but they did demonstrate that Allied armies will not fight alone when Europe is invaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: The Invitation | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Today as the House votes on the continuance of the Reciprocal Trade Pacts, time-worn ruts in the path of economic thought threaten to direct the course of American foreign policy. Right wheels of protectionism and isolationism indicate "no renewal." Left wing ruts are only lightly traced into American economic soil although sanctioned by both idealism and naked self interest. Unbelievable as it may seem at the present moment the ghost of an outmoded concept walks politically in our midst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ham and Cheese | 5/12/1943 | See Source »

...Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and General Electric's Owen D. Young. Green declared that labor is ready to "work, serve and sacrifice with you" for free enterprise's "ultimate triumph." O'Neal: "An artificially inflated price structure will crash and threaten the survival of ... democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Postwar Employment | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...every Catholic individual, priest, professional man and woman, society, organization, layman, businessman, write . . . expressing indignation and demand ing that no bombing or other military plan threaten the eternal city of Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brooklyn Blast | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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