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...reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program of the nation to satisfy their greed for dues and more dues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Model T Tycoon | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

DETROIT--Harry Bennett, personnel director of the Ford Motor Company, today accused the United Automobile Workers, CIO, of attempting to sabotage the National Defense Program "to satisfy their greed for dues and more dues...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 3/5/1941 | See Source »

...celebrating their 31st anniversary, made a statement that many a businessman would like to believe: "The Government cannot and should not pre-empt those fields of private endeavor that have become an indispensable part of life in America." This remark, so opposite to the oldtime Roosevelt denunciations of entrenched greed, gave color to reports of his new attitude of "sweet reasonableness" toward industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: President's Week, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Last week an old man died, another old man retired, a law was held constitutional. Behind these scattered but related facts was a story of greed and gold, of political intrigue and the fulfillment of an old vow. One character in the tale was a North Carolina runt, now vanished into a historical footnote; another was a great American jurist who liked yellow-backed French novels and claiity in the law, and who had an eye both for the exact word and for a well-turned ankle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Underdog into Cow | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over Yankee greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latin Uproar | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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