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...growing discouraged. . . . The national revolution . . . has not yet forced its way through because between the people and me . . . there has risen a double screen of those favoring the old regime and those serving trusts. The troops of the old regime are legion. . . . We must start in now to smash their undertakings by decimating their leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ill Wind Rising | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...House Office Building came the incessant bump and whir of mimeograph machines. Mr. Whelchel had complained about the noise more than once. In his soft Georgia accent he had told Truman Ward, who has a concession to duplicate speeches for Democrats, that one day he would "smash the machines to pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dog Days | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...union's high places. Waiter Joe Doyle* of the S.S. Ancon, proponent of the resolution, asked for a trial board of outsiders, with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole purpose was to get to the bottom of charges that the union "is filled up with Commies." Amidst jeering and booing, Waiter Doyle first offered to stand trial himself on his unionism, then resigned from N.M.U. This would cost him his job, Curran promised, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hard A-Starboard | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Moreno has helped many a frustrated married couple, has even tackled "triangles" with all the participants on the stage at once. In one smash-hit he brought a wife and her Don Juan husband to the theater, collected as audience and cast 75 persons who were all involved in one way or another. In marital storms, claims the doctor, psychodrama brings far better results than psychoanalysis, for he can deal with both partners at the same time, in dynamic situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Merely Players | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...their public to believe. At its present rate of sheet-music sales (150,000 to date), it may well top the nut songs it succeeds: 1936's The Music Goes 'Round and Around (350,000), 1939's Three Little Fishies (250,000). B.M.I.'s first smash, it bids fair to make its writers $5,000 apiece, its publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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