Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that his orders to ban TIME had come down from the Ministry of Finance. Our Buenos Aires Correspondent (at that time, William Johnson) talked to the Subsecretariat of Information and Press, which denied all responsibility for the ban or even knowing about it. Johnson then saw James Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, who promised to help, and Diego Luis Molinari, president of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who got him an appointment with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. The Foreign Minister agreed that "some solution on a legal basis was desirable," and agreed to talk to the President...
...Ambassador Bruce and U.S. Counselor Guy Ray met with Perón and discussed the banning of TIME. No decision was reached. A week later Johnson and Peron had a long talk about "attacks" on Señora Perón, etc., and the President promised to take up the ban with his minister in charge of customs. He said that it would take some time to straighten things...
...that juncture we stopped sending newsstand copies of TIME to Argentina and wrote to our subscribers there, offering to refund their money. On June 14 we were advised by Ambassador Bruce that Foreign Minister Bramuglia had asked him to say that "the entire matter of TIME was fixed up satisfactorily and that TIME could move freely through the mails." We sent along some token shipments. No copies got through. We tried again in November. The result was the same. Meanwhile, all of our applications for an import license were consistently refused...
...Sample membership: James F. Brownlee, chairman of the Business-Education Committee of the Committee for Economic Development; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Lester B. Granger, executive director of the National Urban League.; Leo Perlis, national director of the National C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the board of R. H. Macy & Co.; Richard Joyce Smith, chairman of the Board of Education of Fairfield, Conn.; James A. Stevenson, president of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. The full committee will total...
...first-year lacrosse coaches met on the Business School Field Saturday afternoon. The new rivalry began inauspiciously for Harvard and Bruce Munro as Bill Harkness Yale team took a runaway victory...