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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...residents of Thomson (including most of the members of the city council and the chief of police), appeared in the town's weekly newspaper, the McDuffie Progress. What Thomson's leading citizens had to say was that their Ku Klux neighbors had better put away their bed sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: This Way Out | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...news that Huang carried in a five-inch-thick sheaf of papers for the government was grim. At Acting President Li Tsung-jen's big grey brick house, Nationalist leaders conferred until 2 a.m. Exhausted and ill with high blood pressure, Envoy Huang went to bed. It was no wonder. The Communists did not want peace-they demanded surrender. Their eight points of last January had been expanded by 24 supplementary requests. Most crucial: the Nationalists must allow Red armies to cross the Yangtze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ultimatum | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Five days a week, amiable Roland J. Brand, 57, is out of bed by 4:15 a.m. He walks his Doberman pinscher for half an hour, gulps his breakfast (nothing but cold black coffee), picks up a couple of sandwiches that his wife has made for his lunch, and catches the 5:10 streetcar from his home in West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb. From 6:20 a.m. until 3 p.m. Brand works at a job which many people would call tough, unpleasant and underpaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Where Are the Straitjackets? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Brand is a $220-a-month* attendant at the Milwaukee County Asylum. There, he is responsible for a 70-bed dormitory and a ward of 124 male patients who are "disturbed," i.e., violent, potentially violent, or criminally insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Where Are the Straitjackets? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Varsity coach Jack Barnaby didn't get a chance to see his team's sparkling performance, for a bad cold kept him in bed. In Barnaby's absence, freshman coach Corey Wynn handled the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Downs BC, 9-0 Without Dropping any Sets | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

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