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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most respected cat in all Britain was a small, black, white-bibbed torn named Simon. As ship's cat on board the sloop H.M.S. Amethyst on her heroic voyage down China's Yangtze River last spring (TIME, May 2), Simon got his white whiskers singed by a Communist shell, his face and legs scratched by shrapnel. But throughout the Amethyst's cruise, Simon carried on in his billet, caught at least one mouse every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Honored Memory | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...York was not the only state with a law designed to bar subversive teachers from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Dragnets | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Died. Frank Chambless Rand, 73, onetime president (1916-30) and board chairman (since 1930) of International Shoe Co., biggest in the U.S. (it makes more than 11% of all U.S. shoes); in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Another whose profit-sharing plan increased workers' efficiency was Jewel Tea Co. Started 25 years ago by Jewel's Board Chairman John M. Hancock, onetime adviser to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, the Jewel plan provides for joint pension contributions plus profit-shares from management amounting to 15% of net earnings after dividends. To some employees it has paid off an average return of 55% on their original contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Every Worker a Capitalist | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...plaque honoring the deceased will be placed on the door of the conference room of the Board of Student Advisers at the law School. Sheldon served on the board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 Presented To Law School in Honor of Ex-Grad | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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