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Unlike many another industrial paternalist, George F. never foisted any form of company union on his workers. So in last week's election they simply had to vote for one union or none. One day 8,000 of them suddenly quit their machines, bowled past a few protesting foremen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: For George F. | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Neither police nor Army had much difficulty in identifying the holdup men as members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the band of Eire patriot-terrorists whose program is to sever the few remaining ties with Great Britain and unite Northern Ireland with Eire. Last week 16 of those accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Merry Christmas | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

This week, as Christendom celebrated what it dearly believed to be the 1,943rd anniversary of the birth of Jesus, the Jews of the world still awaited their promised Messiah, and the ingathering of them, the chosen people, in Palestine. Yet in the U. S., perhaps half of the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesus for Jews? | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Some 250 years ago, Cockney Nell Gwyn, self-styled "Protestant whore" of King Charles II, unable to write her own name, initialed a 12-shilling receipt "for a pair of rich embroidered garters." Sold at famous Sotheby's in London in 1939, the voucher, without the garters, brought ?70...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

At the urging of Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. (see p. 7), last Sunday was made Finland Day in many a U. S. State and city. The nation's most famed Protestant preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, composed a prayer for the occasion:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Finland | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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