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...hate having to write this book. Air raids are not only wrong. They are loathsome and disgusting. If you had ever seen a child smashed by a bomb into some-thing like a mixture of dirty rags and cat's meat you would realize this fact as intensely...
...announced plans to evacuate millions from Paris and London at the outbreak of war. Giving the British Government credit for its work in providing the 40,000,000 gas masks, which this week are ready, Professor Haldane insists that, while these are all to the good, evacuation is all wrong. Every park, garden and open space in London and other British cities should immediately be dug up in a system of twisting trenches, he declares. After puting on their gas masks, millions of Londoners should then crouch in these trenches (which would be covered with timbers and green...
...things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things ought to belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others, without labor, have enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor as nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government." I am equally curious about the type of letter we might expect a 1938 Lincoln to write in definition of the New Deal...
Sirs: Has NO one discovered that the Republicans' new streamlined elephant has its knees bending the wrong way? An elephant's legs are bent in the same manner as you bend yours. The result, as shown in TIME [Aug. 15], gives the impression that the worthy animal is ready to go either way at a moment's notice...
...handsome daughters. Because Colonel St. George, a shady Wall Street speculator, needs the financial assistance of a still shadier Mr. Clossons, Mrs. St. George agrees to entertain Mrs. Clossons. This brings their girls into friendship with the Clossons' wild daughter, and gets ambitious Mrs. St. George in wrong with the Manhattan dowagers...