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...Plain Blackmail." Alfredo denied that the marriage of Father Coronel and Gloria was a shotgun affair, claimed instead that the priest himself had suggested that he marry Gloria when he learned she was pregnant. Said Alfredo: "I even asked him how it was possible for a priest to marry, and he said there is no law against it, that in America they do it all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Delicate Question | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...West last month (TIME, Feb. 27). Police Boss Beria and two others of the Politburo's hierarchs, Deputy Premiers Anastas Mikoyan and Andrei Andreev,* echoed Malenkov's bid. They were followed next day by Molotov, who first held out the olive branch, then knouted the West for "blackmail . . . with the so-called hydrogen atomic bomb, which does not exist in fact." He wound up by promising that a new world war would "sweep away imperialism from the world." Much to the outside world's surprise, Number 1 himself, who usually brings the election ritual to its climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Number 2 1/2 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...hesitate to pull strings or use blackmail to get a job writing," Richard G. De Rochemont '28, producer of the "March of Time" and John M. Clark, publisher of the Claremont, N.H. Daily Eagle, agreed at a job forum on writing careers last night in the Union Lower Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rochemont Says Newspapers Not For Real Writers | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

...horrified middle-aged women sat and watched 91 murders, seven holdups, three kidnapings, ten thefts, four burglaries, two cases of arson, two jailbreaks, two suicides, a homicidal explosion, one blackmail and assorted cases of assault & battery and attempted murder. All of this violence, reported Mrs. Clara Logan, president of the Southern California Association for Better Radio and Television, was seen by association members-between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m.-during one week of television shows over six of Los Angeles' seven TV stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Case Against Crime | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers testified that Noel Field had once headed a Communist "apparatus" in the State Department. Last month Hungary's ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was himself executed last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), said Field was a U.S. intelligence agent who had helped blackmail him into becoming "a servant of American imperialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Vanishing Act | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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