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Almost alone among the angry national newspapers, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express argued: "The horse Churchill is pulling a heavy load uphill. What do we do to that horse? Beat him with sticks? Or get behind the wagon and give him a hand...
...telecommunications with the Axis countries, closer passport inspection, control of Axis-owned businesses (on which Argentina and Chile submitted a reservation); and stricter surveillance of local Nazi groups, which openly brag of loyalty to the Fatherland even though a German colonist "wears a sombrero and spurs as wide as wagon wheels...
Where Does the SEC Stand? In its eighth year, under its sixth chairman, Ganson Purcell (TIME, Jan. 26), SEC is not the thrill-a-minute New Deal star wagon it once was. For one thing, defense and war have drawn heavily upon its brilliant staff. OPA took not only ex-Commissioner Leon Henderson, but Utilities Expert Joe Weiner, Legal Eagle Dave Ginsburg; many a lesser technician has gone to defense work. Betting is that only 750 of its 1,250 employes will follow SEC to Rittenhouse Square...
...possible to get when the war is over. If we try to superimpose a definite plan of world government based on our present ideas of the world, we are likely to fall into the same failures and inadequacies that the League of Nations did. To hitch our wagon to such a star as "world union of free people" is to put ourselves in the clouds, and make a really constructive policy towards the future world order impossible...
...were slowing to a stop. In the old days, in big river towns, the ferryboat captain was a man of dignity and wealth. Along narrow streams deep in the country there were leisurely men in overalls who pulled a flatboat across by wires for an occasional farmer's wagon or a model-T Ford...