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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realized by business, through its instruments: high employment and productivity. But business itself must first learn a new concept of freedom. It must learn and conform to the controls for freedom-e.g., reasonable Government regulation-within which it must act. In the same manner, those who wield the power over business for Government must also learn the controls which, by giving business its greatest freedom, can enable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: The New Ruml Plan | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...Party's prospects are not bright. The best that he can hope for is that in a Parliament of many hues, the new N.S.C.A. will wield a potent bargaining power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Again, Social Credit | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...will be draft-exempt. The demand for fighting men will be met even at the cost of some loss in war production. For, as General Hershey wapsodized in his monthly Selective Service bulletin: "Warriors win wars with weapons; but weapons will not win wars without warriors to wield them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER,POLITICAL NOTES,PRODUCTION,THE CONGRESS: Fight or Work | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...makes little difference whether I or others wield the weapon just so the cause for which our beloved country fights is victorious. However subordinate may be my role I hope to play it manfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Somewhat Extraordinary | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Victory and Winston Churchill will make the Conservative Party an odds-on favorite to win Government power in postwar Britain. Last week, top Conservatives who will probably wield that power put on the record their aims for postwar Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blueprint for Europe | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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