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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tape and delays, chiefly against dentists, who must get an O.K. from their Dental Estimates Board before starting expensive dental work. Said one dentist last week: "Sometimes it's a damned nuisance getting authority from some pipsqueak on the board before you can start a job, but I admit there are some chaps who would yank out a mouthful of teeth for the profit they get on the dentures. So in a socialized service I suppose we've got to put up with some interference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Medicine Man | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...admit to the accusation of strikebreaker, said the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, Francis J. Spellman, "and I am proud of it. If stopping a strike like this isn't a thing of honor, then I don't know what honor is." For three days last week, Cardinal Spellman walked about the 550-acre expanse of crowded Calvary Cemetery in New York City's Queens supervising his corps of 100 amateur gravediggers. All of them were young students for the priesthood, recruits from St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. Cardinal Spellman's troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Strike in the Graveyard | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...must admit, however, that once or twice we have found ourselves in the disconcerting position of taking out a powerful tackier and then finding that the quarterback has left the interference and is charging across the other side of the field. Even more disconcerting is to discover that he has temporarily left the field and has gone over to consult Coach Congress. However, these are only occasional complications, and on the whole the democratic team works cooperatively and effectively together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Interference | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...would be strange if his audience didn't. Marquand likes Charley Gray and he is vexed with the people and circumstances that push him around. He thinks Charley is in a rat race; he is frank enough to admit that he finds himself running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

After 34 years on college faculties, Dean Harry J. Carman of Columbia had to admit his distress. Last week at a Manhattan meeting of educators, he spelled it out: too few college professors and instructors know how to teach. He conceded that, as a class, college faculty members know a lot about a lot of things; but too many of them are "departmental-minded" people, who are "without ability to inspire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From Bell to Bell | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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