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...knows how few of us civilians will ever realize how much you are doing for us and how much we owe you," Mrs. McEuen told her sailors. "God bless you -and give us strength to carry on the fight for the glass of beer for the sailor in surroundings worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Across the Street | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...rich tearing up Chicago's streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely to the Honorable Patrick "A. Nash, the greatest patriarch in the Democratic Party's history in all America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People Take a Beating | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...chief place of honor is undoubtedly Tyndale's. It was he who gave to our Biblical speech its organic features, shaping it out of the language of his time. . . . To Tyndale we owe the tone of simple earnestness, the plainness of speech, and the economy of words, that characterize so much of our Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wycliffe to Tyndale to James | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Says he: "For years my great love has been the U.S. Navy. I know more about it than most nonprofessionals. I know every ship. Nothing in my life has ever hurt me as much as what happened at Pearl Harbor. What a horrible thing those in charge did. They owe for the lives of every man killed there. Maybe the Japanese have something in this hara-kiri business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Australia Infelix | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Southern Railway last week paid off its last bank loan, thus joined the aristocracy of U.S. railroads whose members owe neither the banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Southern Pays Up | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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