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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention of them occurred two decades ago. Those two decades cover all but six years of the span of TIME itself. In its Aug. 19, 1929 issue youthful TIME took note of David Dubinsky for the first time. He was then acting president of I.L.G.W.U. The story gave an account of his efforts to raise a $250,000 bond issue to finance a strike of 45,000 Manhattan dressmakers. From that time on, as Dubinsky and his union made more national news, they figured in scores of TIME stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Home of the Brave. A gripping account of anti-Negro prejudice in the wartime Pacific (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...should like to commend TIME for its fair and accurate account of the conviction of my husband, Larry Gara, for "counseling, aiding and abetting" non-registration for the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...ancient tombs uncovered by Vatican workers burrowing below ground to check on the foundations supporting St. Peter's dome. When he became Pope, he gave orders for further investigations. For the past nine years, delicate digging has been under way beneath the great basilica. An official account of these secret labors is reported to be in preparation, perhaps to be made public at the beginning of the Holy Year of 1950. Delicate Matter. Last week the New York Times front-paged a long dispatch from its able Vatican reporter, Camille Cianfarra, indicating that not only had St. Peters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confident Awaiting | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...powerful enough to combat it. Such was Captain Ahab, in the novel's first draft merely "from Nantucket" but in its final version "from humanity...Fate's lieutenant." He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the White Whale | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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