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...Springfield, Ill., Governor Dwight H. Green vetoed a bill to abolish snapshot-taking in nightclubs, tossed the pub-crawling public a little basic advice: if you don't want to be photographed with the wrong person, go with the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Kinfolks | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Alexander J. Stoddard kept mum. The issue was a "family matter," he insisted, and not one for public debate. To his surprise, parents of public-school pupils also began to write letters to newspapers. In a special poll, the Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger on it." The Mothers' Discussion Group agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass v. Merit | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Peace can be achieved only if the world will minimize its conflicts rather than seek to abolish them altogether, Louis Hartz '40, assistant professor of Government, told a V-J Day anniversary gathering last night in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Definition Of Peace Asked For by Hartz | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

...wealth merely to build a larger chip for our shoulder. (History has proved that the world will not be intimidated.) Let's apply that energy and wealth to making friends; to lending a helping hand; to being honestly sincere in striving for peace on earth. Let's abolish the hypocrisy that's leading us all to our foolish destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...hamstrung Caspar Dutra there are two ways out. He can let the Army stage a coup and abolish Congress. Or he can seize upon some incident to declare a "state of siege" under which the Communists can be squelched. Because he wants to govern legally, Dutra has refused the first alternative. Shrewd observers do not think the well-disciplined Communists will give him any excuse for the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rebound | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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