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...rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred to more rapid progress. They ripen more quickly. It is as though the elderly apple were "jealous of youth, and would destroy...
...party's greatest industrialist, Owen D. Young, General Electric's board chairman, appeared in Manhattan to retort to the Republican campaign of fear: "It is no time to make threats. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions. Threats can destroy business just as they can build barricades. Let no one be afraid-let no one be coerced. . . . The plant manager who thinks he is indispensable to the plant and that no change can be made without ruin is likely to think that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth...
...change in the social order is desirable and necessary. The so-called liberal club at City College was not a fact-finding organization seeking after the truth. It was connected in various ways with the Communist party, a party which believes that the time will soon be ripe to destroy by violence all existing political institutions in order to make way for a new and better world. The existing governments, including the government of the City of New York, can hardly be expected to look forward to their own violent destruction with equanimity...
...people have accused you of being pro-Roosevelt, etc. What do they want you to do? Publish a garbled account of the trend of the times, and soft-pedal the fact that the country is on a great Democratic tidal wave? If you did that very thing you would destroy the very thing that makes TIME the one magazine that so many of us depend on for a real account of what has happened. A very common remark these days is, Let's wait and see what TIME has to say about it.. . . JAMES HIGGENBOTTOM...
...animals and close the gardens. . . . You should clearly understand that the closing of the gardens cannot be easily accomplished. On account of the depression in the animal market it now appears to be impossible to dispose of the animals . . . therefore we will be faced with the only alternative ... to destroy them...