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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentence that reads the same, forward or backward. Famed example: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" (apocryphally attributed to Napoleon...
...Both Congress and the President seemed to have run out. Harry Truman had already vetoed five bills. Early in the week he had signed the rent-control bill (TIME, July 7), but with gall in the ink: "I have chosen the lesser of two evils . . . this legislation marks a backward step in our efforts to protect tenants against unjustified rent increases. ... It is unthinkable that the Congress would actually take steps to make more difficult or even impossible the efficient administration of the Government's present activities relating to housing and home finance." He urged an investigation...
Unions could be harassed to death with endless litigation. The requirement that the NLRB seek an injunction whenever a boycott or jurisdictional strike was charged by an employer was "clearly a backward step toward the old abuses of the labor injunction...
Chen is not a man with his eyes shut running rapidly backward to 500 B.C. He reads, and admires, philosophers of change, especially Henri Bergson. But Chen insists that since billions of Chinese people have carried on the world's most stable society on Confucian principles, those principles must be reapplied, not abandoned. Confucius said: "A river, like truth, flows forever and will have no end." Chen does not want the continuity of Chinese society submerged under Western ideas of individualism or materialism...
Such grievances were embarrassing when the U.S. was applying for sole trusteeship over 48,000 other backward peoples on former mandated islands (TIME, Feb. 24). So Navy Secretary James Forrestal appointed a civilian commission* to advise what should be done...