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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Action on the plan began immediately with government officials drawing up necessary legislation, and the United Nations making provision to include American aid in its own plans for poorer nations. Several bills have been passed this session for increased appropriations to the U.N. for use in its economic assistance programs, but it was not until September that the main legislation went to Congress...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...December) had charged that the Navy was "being nibbled to death in the Pentagon" by "landlocked" strategists. His unruly blast had created only a short stir (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, more than ever determined to get a formal investigation of his charges, John Crommelin took more desperate action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Revolt of the Admirals | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...autobiography, written during the early '30s in British jails, Nehru gave unstinted praise to the "great Lenin" and the "great new [Soviet Russian] world." His sentiments may have changed since then. He has come to deplore Communist methods. As Prime Minister, he has sanctioned stiff police action against India's Reds, jailing hundreds of them for terror and sabotage. He has (somewhat quaintly) denounced Indian Reds as "the greatest enemy to the cause of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anchor for Asia | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...three--A. Chase Shafer '51, William E. Wiggin '50, and Noris W. Darrell '51--resigned from the Advocate last Thursday night. The action culminated a year of friction within the magazine, raging around the question of "artiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Ex-Advocate Editors Begin New Magazine | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...meets them; the best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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