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Revolution based on the American ideal of 1776, including a single ground rent tax, conservation of land, and nationalization of natural wealth, is the only preventive for the triumph of Russia, she declared. "The crime of capitalism was that it created the proletariat," she continued, "and the crime of Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democracy Needs Rebirth, Dorothy Thompson States | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

He needled the G.O.P. congressional axmen, branding their appropriation cuts as false economies: "If the foundation of your house needs repair, or if the roof leaks, you know that you are wasting money, not saving it, by failing to make that repair." He put in this category Republican slashes which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Politics | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

In this novel, 18 years of life on an Iowa farm are itemized with raw fidelity and strapping lyricism. Subtitled "a novel of faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Regional & Unique | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

With the walkout only a few hours away, Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell conferred with both sides in Ottawa. More Government assistance, said he, was out. If the Carroll compromise were accepted, the 40? would have to come out of a higher coal price. But the operators found that unacceptable. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE MARITIMES: Shut Down | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Added Mrs. Wood: "Why don't you export yourself with it?" The pubs got word of a cut in beer deliveries, perhaps by as much as 50%, because breweries were hard hit by conservation cuts in coal allocations. So were thousands of homes, Stores, offices, factories. (There was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bad News | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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