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Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker seized the occasion of the 132nd anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth to claim him as its very own. "How," cried the Worker, "could the Philistine rulers of capitalist culture stomach an artist who took the side of the people and who dared, despite the heavy penalties of poverty, censorship, and the deprivation of a wide audience, to tell the truth about the organized thievery that passes for the Two-Party System...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Working Class | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...last week trooped a bunch of happy Texans. There they put the final seal on the biggest private deal in the history of natural gas: the financing of a new $193 million pipeline to pump gas from Hidalgo County, on the Rio Grande, to Manhattan's 132nd Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newest Inch | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Breslau came the propaganda stories: a 4,000,000 Reichsmark collection for the Nazi Winter Help fund, as if millions mattered now; a ceremony to mark the 132nd anniversary of the founding of the Order of the Iron Cross, as if Breslau's cross was not heavier than iron. But shrilly Joseph Goebbels praised Breslau, and perhaps someone in distracted, fear-filled Germany paid heed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Battle of Breslau | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...military cadets and women with shawl-draped babes in their arms filled Mexico City's great central square, the Plaza de la Constitución. All eyes focused on the presidential palace. The crowd had heard but the crowd could not believe. Was it possible, even on the 132nd anniversary of Mexico's revolt against Spain, that old and bitter political rivalries could be dissolved in the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The People Cheered | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...November 1917, a hard, dark chunk of a man walked round & round a team of 34 dray horses at the foot of 132nd St., Manhattan, feeding each & every horse a sugar lump. On a tremendous trailer attached to the team was a submarine which had just been hoisted out of the Hudson River. The man turned and walked down the street, the 34 horses following him. Thus, while thousands jam-packed the sidewalks, did Truckman Henry Herbermann haul the German U-boat C-5 to Central Park to be used as a speaker's rostrum for the second Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Export Shake-Up | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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