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...U.S.S.R.'s official slogan for May Day: "Preparedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Timetable | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...Your slogan seems to be "Curt, Clear, Complete." One meaning of "curt" is rude. Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part. That would be rude. Besides, it would not be true. But the point I am trying to make is that your writers go out of their way to describe their subjects as "potbellied," "bullnecked," "paunchy," and the like. By so doing they invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...soap shortage, Russia staged its annual May Day revels, a display of rumbling tanks, massed troops, zooming warplanes, in praise of its successful "struggle for peace." Among the bigwigs who surrounded Man-of-Peace Stalin atop Lenin's tomb were new faces, the representatives of Bessarabia and Bukovina. Slogan of the day was "Strengthen the Red Army and Intelligence Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Holiday | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Free Earl Browder was the slogan in the U.S., particularly in Manhattan where 18,000 marched in a circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Holiday | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Union and not by the Committee to Defend Defense. After he has spoken, both sides are free to question him, and the very fact that audiences and members are of every political color makes for tolerance and understanding. Extremism and the black-and-white world of the political slogan are reduced to a happy minimum. National as well as international issues nowadays are as involved as an Italian spaghetti and have to be elaborately unravelled before they can be understood. This function is admirably served by the Political Union, not only because it gives voice to all attitudes in fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Much Pressure | 4/30/1941 | See Source »

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