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...writer, not a playboy, Communist, world-saver, dilettante, or U. S. prophet. Writing is my work. I take pride in this work, and when it is good I am as pleased to say so as TIME, for instance, is pleased in its advertisements to say it is the best magazine of its kind in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Life-Saver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...last week pulled a surprise out of his academic cap: an offer from Mr. Green to let the teachers' organization, which has refused to pay the special assessment for fighting C. I. O.. use the assessment for its own organizing work. The convention unanimously approved this face-saver, kept itself in good standing with both camps of Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Davis' Diplomacy | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Therefore, stay home if you can. Get a job as an ordinary shop-hand, as a store clerk, or sell something if you think you can. Tutoring or serving as companion is remunerative work when it is available. So much for the money saver...

Author: By Donald H. Moyer, | Title: Placement Office Is Only for Career Seekers, Not Temporary Job Hunters | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...face-saver for the Prime Minister, Britain's stiff new tax has the same name as the shelved tax trap: The National Defense Contribution. Irrespective of whether a firm's profits are increasing so fast as to suggest "profiteering" or not, Simple Simon's tax is to bear with equal weight on virtually all British firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Simple Simon's Tax | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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