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...commissioners, being peaceful U.S. citizens brought up to believe that minding one's business was the surest way to peace, reached this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance. But obviously, neither minding one's business nor trying to reach a pacific accord among nations was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: For A-Day | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Juan Domingo Perón, boss of Argentina, peered into the future, reported back that 1948 would be "very bad" and 1949 "terrible." But he was doing his best, he said, scooping up a slightly congested metaphor: "I am trying to bring accord . . . so that we may all kick the ball toward the same goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

That was not quite right. Unconsciously, the King Ranch had tried it with its vaqueros. They came from Mexico three generations ago. But it takes a good man to stand up to the tough, exacting work. Those who find it too tough soon leave of their own accord. Hence it is only the best riders, ropers and wranglers who have stayed and perpetuated their kind. Result: today's vaqueros are probably the best, or equal to the best, cowboys in the world. Their pay is low. With keep it amounts to about $150 a month, but the ranch takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Big as All Outdoors | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...fully in accord with Mr. Yates's statement that: "The average Briton . . . would much prefer to starve quietly than see our loathsome, contemptible politicians conniving with you to tie us up for generations with the dollar loans ..." I only wish there were more average Britons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...address to the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in New York on Wednesday, Erich Lindemann, Associate in Psychiatry, stressed the need for greater accord between clergymen and psychiatrists. Temporarily forsaking his Emerson D lectern, Lindemann emphasized the need for psychiatrists to understand people in terms of "their frame of values...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Psychiatrist Asks Cultural Analysis | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

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