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Said the plump, teetotal Primate of All England: "What is primarily a moral problem with a medical aspect," said he, "is being treated as if it were primarily a medical problem with a moral aspect."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Senators, especially those up for reelection, shuddered as they thought of the teetotal sentiment they might have to face back home. They could have saved their shudders. The yowl of the nation's wets was a little late, but it was loud.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRINKS: Lee's Amendment | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

A captain in World War I, Soldier Murphy is due to be paid as much as General Pershing. His Court salary is $20,000 a year, and will continue while he remains at Fort Benning. He has, however, forsworn the added pay of a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Justice Has a Date | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

The Oxford Group has been engaged, for more than a decade, in "doing something" about the lives of its members. The Group's principle: if men are changed, nations will change, the world will change. To many Protestant churchmen-but to few Catholics (most of whom deny the reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA Week | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Ten thousand Indians soon began work on the 3,000-acre Congress City site, many of them volunteers toiling for love of Saint Gandhi & Mother India. Last November the timetable of the builders was badly upset when the Tapti River unseasonably rose in flood, and failed for six long weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Chariot of Freedom | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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