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...crime was committed and there was an arrest, and a young man was thrown into a cell. The crime was great, and the young man was just a boy, and the cell was dark. Life seemed at an end and hell became a living thing. Regret tore at every breath-but regret unlocks no doors, as the young man soon found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...blood of civilization. I look through the old man, Uncle Sam, outstretched upon the gibbet, and I see his son not given an opportunity to be crucified but only given an opportunity to be murdered in mass formation. I see my country going down into a holocaust of hell where others have been bleeding for centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Togas Clad | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...London, the Nazis reversed previous tactics, now dropping explosives before incendiaries, hoping to make fire fighters lie low while fires caught on. For three bad nights in a row, the South Wales port of Swansea took a pasting. On two successive days, the Germans tried daylight attacks on Hell's Corner, much like those of last autumn. The British claimed they failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: The Enemies Agree | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...bleeding soldiers. His highly-colored, savagely-drawn pictures have drawn praises and commissions from many a bourgeois. (Art-loving capitalists buy his canvases like hot cakes at $750 up.) Today Leftist Gropper (once an errand boy in a clothing store) lives in a nine-room stone house ("bourgeois as hell") in Croton-on-Hudson, drives a big Chrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War Painter | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...aligned with the big railroads and dead set against the little businessman. He began a long series of trips to Washington, letters to big and little RFC shots, visits and letters to Ohio Congressmen. He got out a mimeographed letter, Hickory News, whose main purpose was to give bureaucracy hell. In one issue he referred to RFC 'as "Railroad's Fat Cat" and to ICC (which he also dislikes) as "Iscariot's Carnal Cat's-paw." Every time RFC turned him down on a new application (total to date: six) his mimeograph whirled faster and hotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: RFC's Cross | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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