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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannot understand my sadness when I read it in TIME, Sept. 1. Always thought I had a "to hell with the British" feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...spending in order to reduce agricultural production," Henry wrote in his diary, "always seemed nonsense to me." Once, Morgenthau complained to Wallace that it was costing $130 million in overhead for the Agriculture Department to give away $516 million in nine months. Said Wallace: "You don't understand what we are doing." "Oh, yes I do," shot back slow-boiling Henry Morgenthau. "I understand it more every day. . . . The one that costs us more than anybody else is Wallace. My hat is off to him-he is getting away with murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Spenders | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...more. And if we don't get the goods from the States we can't keep our factories goin' to send goods to England, and if we don't send the goods to England we're out of a job. Any child could understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Plain Talk | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...print, every time Protestants call attention to some form of official Catholic intolerance, with the assertion that it is Christ Himself who is under attack, and that only disloyalty to Christ could have prompted the criticism. There is a curious pathos in this performance; for the bishops could hardly understand that from the Protestant standpoint it is precisely this unqualified identification of Christ with the historic church which is the root of all Catholic heresies and the cause of Catholic intolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whosoever Thou Art... | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they-ve had enough; that low-cut orange one whose method of support Is still uncertain ... One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cock-tall cogiomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: Stadium Viewed As Grim Nexus in Local Manhunt | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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