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Most psychiatrists now practice in big cities (where some of them command fabulous fees), asylums, or in prisons (where inmates call them "bug doctors"). Last week a lot of them were expanding their practice to include the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Wackies | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Juan Pueblo suspects that the Justo plan is to wait until Argentina is practically on the rocks, then to jettison the crew and take command. Juan did not like the looks of this at all, but for the moment he did not see what could be done about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Juan Pueblo Smells Trouble | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Duncan Chief of Import Executive, Minister Without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood, whose so-called Production Council has proved inadequate, he made Chief of [postwar] Reconstruction Executive. In Britain, as in the U. S., these changes were not wholly satisfying. Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is still no supreme high command of economic and industrial policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill & the U. S. | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...reconnaissance, he served with the 13th in the Afghan War in 1881. On service in Zululand he won the name of Impeesa (The Wolf that Never Sleeps) from the awed natives, moved on to Ashanti and Matabeleland. By the time of the Boer War he was a colonel in command of Mafeking, where he held off the Boers with a heroic 217-day defense. In 1907, aged 50, big-game hunter, author of Aids to Scouting, an Empire hero, he was back in England as Inspector-General of Cavalry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Builder of Empires | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared." Italy's Balilla leaders preached: "Believe, Obey, Fight"; instead of democracy, "Mussolini is always right." Naziism began its youth organizations with a will, started pumping them full of fine Nazi phrases: "There is no greater honor than death for the Führer," "Command and we follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Builder of Empires | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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