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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singles victories, rains came to wash out the last half of the Varsity tennis team's match with Bowdoin on the Business School courts yesterday afternoon. Two remaining singles duels were halted with the score knotted at a set apiece, and none of the three doubles matches had yet begun when proceedings were halted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drizzle Dampens Out Tennis Victory Hopes As Varsity Leads, 4-0 | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

Some months ago, when Henry Wallace had taken over the editorship of the New Republic, Kingsley Martin had sent a routine congratulatory note and asked Wallace to come to England some time as his guest. When Wallace accepted, the "thing" had begun to grow. Martin had to turn over his own secretary to cope with the invitations for speeches; he assigned a special man to press relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Enormous Thing | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Uranium is not an uncommon element, but known big deposits are few. If a prospector should find one of these, his troubles would have only begun. The U.S. (like nearly every nation) regards uranium as strictly Government property. At the end of every Geiger rainbow, an FBI man is waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Find Uranium | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...world trade conference two years ago, but it has steadily faded. If trade is to be really free, not merely a scaling down of tariffs is needed but a major surgical operation. I see no prospect of that now." To this man, World War III has already begun-not as a shooting war but as a competition between socialism and capitalism. The outcome would depend on how the U.S. harnesses its productivity and distributes its prosperity. If the U.S. succeeded, capitalism would indeed be catching, and the shooting phase need never begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Tombstones & Teasels | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Socialist Patriarch Léon Blum snapped back that the savior of the Republic spoke against the Republic. "I am obliged to acknowledge that an open fight has now begun," he wrote. "Without reservation . . . [the Socialist Party] will be on the side of the Republic." The moderate MRP's leaders were cautious and worried. The Right's approval of De Gaulle was markedly reserved. Communist L'Humanité demanded an Assembly debate to forbid Army officers to listen to De Gaulle. Worried about the increased danger of civil war, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier paid a hasty visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No Boulanger? | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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