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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would appear that the majority are opposed to free American labor asking wage increases. It is not difficult to see that a group prevented by law from making demands are unwittingly opposed to anyone else's obtaining relief. It is like a small boy saying to his twin brother: "If I can't have a penny's worth of candy, neither shall you." There is a connection between labor and members of the armed force. . . . If one is raised, eventually so will the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Therefore, we have the twin jobs of resisting the wrong kind of Japanese government and getting ready for constructive settlement with reasonable Japanese when we have won. We have made mistakes and will eventually have to clear out of Asia; however, the Japanese have even less right to subjugate peoples their way than we have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wild Says Aid to Britain Did Not Weaken U.S. Pacific Forces | 12/10/1941 | See Source »

...Faced, Woman Garbo, after marrying Melvyn Douglas, poses as her own twin sister and tries to seduce him in order to test his love. The plot has been used many times before and just as suggestive films have gone by without such strong protest. One guess why Two-Faced Woman has been singled out for condemnation: next week Catholics will be asked to take their annual pledge "to abstain from witnessing indecent motion pictures and promise to do everything possible to strengthen public opinion against the showing of immoral films." Right now a rousing condemnation of a sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To See Is to Sin | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Last week, while Old Zup made plans to retire to his farm-to pursue his twin hobbies of raising cattle and painting landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Zup's Setting Sun | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

WASHINGTON-The United States today intensified efforts to induce Finland to end her war against Russia with a twin-barrelled blast accusing the small Baltic nation of jeopardizing American war aid by serving as a tool for the German military machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Criticizes Finland | 11/26/1941 | See Source »

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