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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merle Tuve, physicist and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, summed up: "The broad problem we are examining is whether our society is now so intensively organized that the individual is becoming helpless and ineffective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: ORGANIZATIONS | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...bill giving President Truman broad powers to revamp the government, but making it easier for Congress to nullify his reorganization plans, was approved yesterday by a Senate Committee. Truman had asked reorganization powers and his request was supported by former president Herbert Hoover whose commission on reorganization submitted its last report yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Votes Down Taft, Wherry Proposals to Slash E.R.P.; Russia May Break British, French Pacts | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

Dosides Compton, 48 speakers, representing a broad cross-section of the world's scholars, will attend the meetings. Ten come from foreign countries, including Russia, India, and New Zealand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compton Outlines Science's Tasks | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...broad prophecy, this last might turn out to be true. Churchill, however, had designed the statement for use in a by-election at Sowerby. Presumably, it was intended to win votes for the Tories. It was not likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Medicine Man | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Provence, Masson tried to explain last week what the switch meant. "Don't think I'm going to return to the Barbizon school and paint descriptive landscapes," he began. "No, I'm still a surrealist, but a sun-loving one-seeking the fantastic and mysterious in broad daylight, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Innocent, More Detached | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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