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...steering wheels, rumbled along rocky roads and through field and wood without traffic tie-ups. Supply functioned without a major hitch. Motorcycle dispatch riders, powdered with dust that turned their blue denim white, clattered into well-hidden command posts with battle messages that got prompt handling. In forward areas, tireless doughboys, in superb physical condition, moved forward, retired, swung down the roadsides with a minimum of stragglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Test in the Field | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

When he was in England he kept out of bomb shelters, watched rescue squads and fire fighters, aroused a popular enthusiasm second only to Churchill's. When he landed in Canada he turned on a tireless flow of effective speech that jarred lethargic Canadians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Plain Talker from Down Under | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...first time in his long career. Henry Ford had agreed to negotiate with a labor union. The settlement, fruit of Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner's and U.S. Conciliator James Dewey's tireless efforts, set up a board on which top-ranking Ford men will confer with union men and public officials to adjust grievances that cannot be settled by plant committees. Ford agreed to reinstate five of the men whose dismissals precipitated a walkout at the huge Rouge plant. The union agreed to leave the cases of three others in arbitration. Both sides agreed to cooperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Prayer Answered | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Like the National Christian Mission (TIME, April 14), Dr. Otterbein went after the unchurched. He got them by-1) tireless pastoral work, 2) worship, not revivals, 3) never pressing membership on any of the thousands he invited to attend a service. Says ex-Salesman Otterbein: "When a man is ready to join the church, he will make the move himself. Sure you can push a man into joining, but when you do, that is the last time you will see him." His congregation, which includes 19 nationalities, also has a high percentage of onetime lapsed members of other denominations, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Success Story | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...York Call once had a million readers. Of such might, the mere remaining shadow is the Manhattan weekly, the New Leader. Under forced draft it pulls 43,000 readers-mostly among Manhattan and Hollywood malcontents and old Socialists who sigh for the good old days. Its assistant editor-tireless, 5 ft. 2 in. Victor Riesel-is also most of the New Leader's editorial staff (he writes under five noms de guerre and is the New Leader's Washington Bureau besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out of the Night | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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