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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five hundred feet of signatures is the goal the Harvard World Federalists will aim for as they begin canvassing "every home in Cambridge" tomorrow to obtain voters' support for a petition backing universal government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Federalists Chase 10,000 Signatures To Back Petition | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

...first time since before the war, a term will begin next February without a single new face making an appearance in Memorial Hall. After a long decline and fall, the wartime mid-year admittance system has finally found its way to the scrap heap. Although 400 Seniors will leave College for the last time, not a single Freshman or returning veteran will be on hand to replace them. It might seem that now all those long-suffering forced commuters and unHoused upperclassmen might get a chance for a room along the River. But, sad to relate, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room Service, Please | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...only natural that the farmer or any other individual will hold his commodity if he expects a higher price and is not forced to sell. A fixed price established by our Government . . . will answer this question. The farmers will then begin delivery. . . . Many of them are led to believe that the taxes will be reduced next year, which is another reason why they are holding their wheat. It is very difficult for me to understand why the farmer should be criticized for holding his commodities until such time as he chooses to sell. THOMAS D. CAMPBELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Khan's Lunch. India is spending $500,000 a day to take care of refugees; Pakistan cannot begin to match that. As a result, the Moslem refugees have become a fertile field for leftist agitators against the conservative Jinnah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Sick | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...year. Last July 33 Trappist monks, brothers and novices established the Monastery of the Holy Trinity on a 1,640-acre ranch at the head of the Ogden valley near Ogden, Utah. Outside work is finished on a temporary monastery of Quonset-type buildings. Soon the monks expect to begin work on an irrigation system, and on gardens and orchards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hard Peace | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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