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...another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Triumph of Honesty | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Said one well-informed Greek: Premier Papandreou "won't last six weeks once the Government gets to Athens, and if he does, woe betide poor Greece. She will be bathed in blood." He added: "Watch young Venizelos (liberal Vice Premier, who recently left the Papandreou Government in a huff), and keep a weather eye on the shadowy figure called Rendis, who until recently was minister without portfolio in the Papandreou Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Liberation & Desperation | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...Woe to us and to our nation, if, instead of giving honor to God, we exalt human ideas above God and extol the powers of this world as though they were all-powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Woe to Us . . . | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...Woe to us and our nation if we revile the Holy Scriptures as a Jewish book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Woe to Us . . . | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...Woe to us and our nation when it is considered right to take life because human beings are considered as of no value, or because they belong to another race; when hatred and cruelty are the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Woe to Us . . . | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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