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...Arnold's war will be no Blitzkrieg. Molasses-slow is the Judiciary Committee, headed by foxy old Hatton Sumners of Texas (who has the Confucian viewpoint that none-of-this-will-matter-in-a-thousand-years), and composed of 25 other lawyers, who know all the ins-&-outs of legal obfuscation. Some members of the committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet...
This book is a life of Jules Verne (the first in English) and an analysis of the romantic-scientific viewpoint of the 19th Century. Industrious Jules Verne was a perfect exponent of that viewpoint. His books, tremendously popular, not only stimulated "progress," but furnished a grateful escape from...
Miller away, and the sounds of the new raid were her only requiem." And that last line is nearest thing to a literary false note in one of the most vivid and sensitive accounts of the great London raids, from the viewpoint of people on the ground, that has come out of England since the Battle of Britain began...
...believe that you have to be somewhat discreet as to the method of expression in putting over a magazine of this kind, where your readers primarily approach a given subject with a somewhat different viewpoint than we do here in the United States. However, to answer your specific question as to forfeiting your reputation for stating the facts or turning TIME'S Air Express Edition into a propaganda sheet, in my judgment there can be but one answer. You have established a reputation for unbiased news and as such you are making a valuable contribution to Pan-American relations...
...generous. Wrote President Craig Royer Sheaffer: "The fact that we can do the largest business, report the largest profits and pay the largest dividends is proof, we believe, that our system, of which the profit-sharing plan has become almost an integral part, is successful-not only from the viewpoint of the employe but the stockholder as well." Last year the company paid stockholders $518,535 in dividends, paid employes and executives $368,815.21 in profit sharing-a 71% ratio of profit sharing to dividends which is being upped again this year...