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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie did. In a crowded little room stood the same portable electric chair. Willie smiled. He wiped his palms on his pants and sat down. He had nothing to say. He might have remembered the last time. (Last time, "everything begun to look dazey. ... It was like the white folks watching was in a big swing, and they'd swing away and back and then right up close.") In the silence the sheriff pulled the switch. This time Willie was carried away from the portable electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Sunday Heart | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Martin County, was tired. Over the weekend, the rain had held off. All these days and most of the nights, until the ground fog became too heavy for the headlights, the tractors bad crawled over the fields-Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. At 8 p.m. Monday, the rain had begun again. But by then Barke had 50 acres of oats seeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rain & Weak Pigs | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...past Nepal (54,000 sq. mi.) maintained regular relations only with Britain and with occasional visiting Chinese missions. But Britain's departure from India, Nepal's next-door neighbor, has already begun to create a political vacuum into which the U.S. is stepping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Goodbye to All That | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...next decade or two. But the Truman Doctrine will not cause it. There can be two causes of war with Russia. One is your blissful lack of concern about the advance of Russian Communism. The other is a rising of reactionary sentiment throughout the country which has already begun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...lofty plateau of Mexico the rains had begun to fall. They heralded the end of the dry season and of the dust clouds raised by the afternoon wind from the cornfields and the green rows of the maguey. At Balbuena Airport, aerologists scanned their weather charts, for next week Miguel Aléman, 47th President of Mexico, will board the Sacred Cow to fly north on a friendly visit to Harry Truman, his guest last month in the ancient City of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Good Friend | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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