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To U. S. home readers these remarks may seem oldfashioned, but one of the concerns of Duncan Aikman is to show that they are typical, if extreme; that North Americans of branch office calibre are often content (and of course mutually encouraged) to behave like boors and babies in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rediscovered Continent | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

All papers in the Reich featured the Fuhrer's decision that, as a special Christmas dispensation, each German man may buy one necktie, each woman one pair of stockings, without the usual deduction from his or her annual clothing ration of "100 points"-ordinarily a necktie exhausts three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

>-To Congress the President sent his second installment of Reorganization, which was speedily approved (see p. 19). > Cutting out Adolf Hitler for the affections of Argentina is a project high on Franklin Roosevelt's "must" list. Last week he discussed at press conference a letter which he wrote to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Strangled Rabbit | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

The leader revealed that with only three dissenting votes three hundred union members had-voted to walk out next Monday, "If we can't get a closed shop, we expect as least an increase in salaries and the removal of the compulsory insurance deduction from the pay checks."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Workers Threaten Walk-Out | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

Then it occurred to Taxpayer Wilson that his new dependent had been living, at least since her moment of "quickening" as a three-month-old embryo, in February 1936. Father Wilson allowed himself a deduction of eleven-twelfths of $400. The Bureau of Internal Revenue came back at him for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Multiplication and Deduction | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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