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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received from New York's Fordham University an honorary LL.D. (his fifth) with a speech stressing the significance of veterans' education: "Ignorance and its handmaidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion . . . breed dictators [and] wars. . . . We must look to education ... to wipe out that ignorance which threatens catastrophe...
...Corporation. Never one to be caught short himself, Serge had meanwhile been building up control of the Chosen Corp., Ltd., a British concern which owned Japanese companies operating gold mines in Korea. By 1937, when the Sino-Japanese War threatened to wipe out his interests, Rubinstein smartly sold Chosen's Far Eastern properties for $1,700,000 to a Polish friend. The latter supposedly smuggled Chosen's cash in Japan out of the country, wrapped in obis...
...gone too far, that the sudden collapse of controls would usher in a period of violent and costly price fluctuations for hard-pressed consumers. But some placed at least part of the blame on OPA's reluctant retirement back to a free economy and its failure to wipe out inequities and obstacles to production...
...Your Press department [TIME, Jan. 21 ] recalled the appropriate line from Tristram Shandy ("They should have wiped it up," said my Uncle Toby, "and said no more about it"), and proceeded to wipe up the press and say more about it [the reporting of Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan's remarks on Jewish refugees...
...fill a civilian job despite stuttering, partial paralysis, a hernia or a crooked spine, will be deemed suitable for the interim army. So will other 4-Fs previously disqualified because of "mental deficiencies, mild in degree." With 1,250,000 4-Fs to choose from, the Army hopes to wipe out its deficit by the end of April...