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...struggles and sufferings and defeats. At least one could get a decent meal and still work in Widener--they had no stopped that yet. And after all, he was imprisoned voluntarily--no one compelled him to come to Harvard in the first place or to slave and moil and toil and strain his eyes in a library hemmed in by windows plated with steel. He had sentenced himself to this incarceration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...lived a goodly people, with herds of cattle, flocks of sheep and goats, and sties full of fat swine. Their streets were all paved with cobblestones, and each house had a white gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...done or recommending any substitute taxes to make up an estimated $7,500,000 loss in revenue, Governor White declared: "The home is a home, whether it be occupied by a man of wealth or by a man who must earn his daily bread by his daily toil. . . . An amendment to the constitution may be necessary . . . but if so, I think there is no question whatever that our people would overwhelmingly ratify such an amendment at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Home Is a Home | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Back to Manhattan and his 42nd-story office overlooking City Hall Park where his faithful investigator of 16 years service, John Terry (ne Capozucca) and his three lawyer-helpers toil, surrounded by framed pictures of "The Boss" and clients he has defended, came Lawyer Liebowitz. Refreshed by a night's sleep at his big new eleven-room home in Brooklyn where his twin 17-year-old sons Robert and Lawrence plan for Princeton in September and his daughter Marjory, 11, practices the piano under her musical mother's eye, Lawyer Liebowitz hurried to the defense of his latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Scottsboro Hero | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what kind of regime they toil under- brought into genial conference the chief exponents of Fascist and Nazi labor: for Italy, Grand Councilman Tullio Cianetti, president of the Fascist Confederation of Industrial Workers; for Germany, Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-GERMANY: Fuller Lives | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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