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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain specific steps could be taken immediately. The committee proposed strengthened power for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Section. It recommended the establishment of a permanent commission in the Executive Office of the President, and of a joint standing committee in Congress to act as watchdogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Deeds v. Ideals | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...House has yet to act before one Senator, 16 Deputies, 18 Rio City Councilmen and 47 members of state legislatures-all acknowledged Communists-lose their seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Help Wanted | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Taylor's recommendations: 1) abolish lectures; 2) distribute copies of what the lecturer would have said, and let it be mulled over in small discussion groups; 3) help each student to "find a set of values in which he can believe and by which he can act in this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Eager Beavers? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Vegas, Nev. last summer, to get a divorce, Kay put on her act in a nightclub show to pass the time, and surprised even her own confident self by bringing the house down. Teamed up with the Williams Brothers, a quartet from Iowa who had knocked about on their own for about ten years with little success, she was ready for Ciro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dizzy-Making | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Onstage, Kay, her blonde hair brushed severely back, looks about 30, but owns to 35. One Hollywood wag says she "has a young face made up of old materials." Says she of her act: "I always wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dizzy-Making | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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