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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also slated to speak is Bernard Bernstein, former Financial Adviser to General Eisenhower, who will oppose Blaisdell's stand. Professor Robert R. Bowie of the Law School will act as moderator for the first in a series of twelve scheduled talks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Law Forum Treats German Power Tonight | 10/9/1947 | See Source »

Altogether the English setting seems to be a mistake. Aside from the injection of a few Anglicisms and British accents, the play is more American than anything else. The focal point of the second act, a supposedly immoral letter, does not seem so terribly bad, and the author's obvious switch to English codes to support the validity of his characters' moral motivations, is a transparent device. Nor can the portrayels of intense emotion be palmed off as peculiarly English; they are poorly directed, and evoke very little. Sometimes they are ludicrous, and that adds to the evening's total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

Problem Personified. But the threat of chaos and Communism over Europe would impel Washington to act. This week, President Truman indicated that he would ask Congress for $580 million in stopgap help for France and Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reactions | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...tantrum (TIME, Sept. 29) proved anything, it proved that Russia did not want war now, and was trading vituperation for time. What the seizure of the three Americans at Trieste proved was that Russian aggression had made several frontier situations in Europe so hair-trigger that a hotheaded act on either side could cause shooting which might be very hard to stop again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Out of the Shadows | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...fight to place a plaque honoring Sacco and Venzetti on Boston Common will be taken to the Massachusetts legislature if the governor maintains his refusal to act, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger May Carry Sacco Plea To Capitol Unless Governor Yields | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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