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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned economy all by itself regardless of the other parts of Germany. Nothing was said about a planned economy being incompatible with democracy. Since I was a member of the Military Government committee on the review of state constitutions, I can vouch for the accuracy of the above account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...cell, Susan learned that it also (technically) forbids hitchhiking,* and demands (by a law passed in 1799) that strangers be able to give a good account of themselves. Susan's account, including her admittedly phony name, was not good enough for the easily irritated Jersey cops. But Susan was as stubborn as they were. After she had been in jail 23 days, Assistant Prosecutor Stephen Toth Jr. tried to reason with her. But Susan, whose description and fingerprints had been sent to the FBI and all state police, claimed that her right name was her own affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: So You Won't Talk, Huh? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Andy Muldoon dropped back into the end zone as he took the pas from center, and flipped a short screen pass over the charging green forward wall to Sto Bell, who galloped all the way behind a thundering herd of nine Deacons. Bell then booted the conversion to account for all the scoring in the contest...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Deacons Capture House Grid Title, Clip Bunnies, 7-0 | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

Unknown to his trackers, West also was carrying $200, a cash debt collected from a friend the day before he disappeared. Police and private investigators had been working on the assumption that he had only $10 with him, since no checks cleared his account in a Milford Bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amnesia Carries West on Jaunt to Florida and Cape | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

During her first struggling year in New York, ex-aristocrat Blavatsky lived at a lower East Side home for working women, picked up what jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theosophy's Madame | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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