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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the common man may cling--economic freedom." But the common man has already given evidence that he is willing for the government to assume as much power as it needs to win the war. He has also shown that he expects the government after the war to prevent a return of the runaway competition which has crushed him in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Post Turns Backwards | 10/9/1942 | See Source »

...Brown saw it, was simply that the Commander in Chief had asked Congress in time of war to give him by specific legislation powers he could otherwise use without specific Congressional consent. (Under the Second War Powers Act, the President may directly take any action he deems necessary to prevent shortages; his request was not dictatorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: God Forbid . . . Such Disunity | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...heroism and loyalty are helpless to prevent the slow, inexorable killing of the pilots of Squadron 80. Quayle himself (one of two Squadron survivors after the fall of Greece) dies in action flying a Hurricane. His pregnant bride is held in Nazi-occupied Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battle Above Olympus | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...rulings, reports The Dartmouth, would be designed to prevent "rounder" drinking by small groups stagnating in an alcoholic aura for its own sake rather than social drinking indulged in connection with other recreation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians to Flood Town Despite Holiday Loss | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...that we have an ample supply of potential workers if only they can be brought into an active labor force. To do so is impossible under the present system of labor pirating. It can only be done by a direct exercise of authority. This authority must be based to prevent such steals as the one which occurred in Detroit recently when 52 toolmakers were lured from their jobs by a thirty cent hourly wage bribe. It must be used to forbid employers from hiring away workers except by express permission of the production authorities. It must train clerks and shopgirls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Last Call | 9/30/1942 | See Source »

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