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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Republican Goes to Ohio | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Intelligence work" meant almost anything in World War II, from picking up bedroom gossip in Lisbon to sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hunters & Hunted | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...agree to a formal adjournment, the House had another out: it would simply start a series of three-day recesses, which require no Senate approval. For the next four weeks. Speaker Sam Rayburn announced, only a corporal's guard would need to stay in town-someone to act as Speaker, a functionary to parade the mace (which is the symbol of House authority), and someone to move adjournment every day after the journal has been approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Year-Round Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Racing against a November deadline on a play about The New Yorker magazine that he started writing nine years ago, Humorist James Thurber was "midway through the second act for the 28th time" when he got some news: another producer was putting on another playwright's comedy about the same magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Birthday | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Faith in Reverse. The absolute atheists, says Maritain, are represented today chiefly by the academic high fashion of existentialism and the militant mission of Communism. For them, he says, the casting aside of God is "a basic act of moral choice." It is, in other words, an act of faith in reverse which, in pretending to deny religion, "is a full-blown religious commitment." But it is a tragic failure. Example: the Communist, whose atheism begins as a declaration of independence, plunges into a new slavery "to a worldly demiurge crazy for human minds to bend and bow and yield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The God-Haters | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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