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...community cannot permit collective bargaining to be merely a game of blindman's buff. . . . The day is long past when collective bargaining can be carried on in the atmosphere of a David Harum horse trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Blindman's Buff | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Bare Facts. In Oklahoma City, police arrested a naked woman who refused to put on her clothes for the trip to the police station. She was locked in a cell, still buff-bare, finally changed her mind after sitting a while on an iron fixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...plan worked well. Last week the first buff bricks of a new Mount Zion Baptist Church were laid. By June all the brick work will be finished, and the congregation will move from the basement into an auditorium seating 856. After that, bit by bit, still paying as they go, Mount Zion's members will complete their $150,000 building, a monument to patient perseverance-and a quietly Christian rebuke to racial intolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Perseverance | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Marchesa Tarleto Zucchini's, the talk was of fashions. Peplums will be worn this year. And the most nondescript of buff tweed suits-startlingly-with a magnificent sable coat. The startling is what often gives the fresh touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Roman Social Season | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...show had cost only one-third ($50,000) of what it cost in 1940. After six days & nights of uneventful horse-trading in a small, ovenlike buff and gilt hotel ballroom, the Resolutions Committee had patched together a 1944 G.O.P. platform-no more ambiguous and no more forthright than most-which neither offended nor excited the 1,057 delegates. For the first time in G.O.P. convention history, no one bothered to submit a minority platform report or to offer suggestions from the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Man They Loved | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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