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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly completed was Nobel Prize-winning Author Pearl Buck's "Book of Hope"-a collection of 1,000 signatures, each representing a donation of $100 or more to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Both book and money will be sent to Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...Party. Years later William Gibbs McAdoo, whose job was to collect it, wrote: "The unpopularity of the bill . . . was undoubtedly the most potent factor in the defeat of the Democrats [in 1918]. We lost enough seats in Congress to give the Republicans a working majority." For a decade the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Board of Tax Appeals were swamped with cases arising from the 1918 act. Vast sums (estimated at around $1,000,000,000) were refunded. Some cases are under litigation still...
...spent almost 30 years telling his flock of 29,000,000 Metropolitan policyholders how to take care of themselves. Son of Lithuanian immigrants, Dr. Dublin taught college mathematics, took his Ph.D. in biology, mated the two subjects when he went to Metropolitan in 1911 to organize its vital statistics bureau...
Stepping warily around these network hazards, Publicist Louis G. Cowan, who conceived the program, managed to make the quizzes entertaining adult stuff. Questions flung at the tiny intelligentsia were selected by TIME'S Chicago News Bureau chief, Sidney James, who was interlocutor for the Quiz Kids until NBC deposed him on the ground that his magazine connection made him too much of a rival for Clifton Fadiman...
Pius XII has kept strict silence about Italy's war activities. As during the Spanish War, some Italian prelates have not. Last week Most Rev. Evasio Colli, Bishop of Parma and head of the Central Bureau of Catholic Action, asked its members to pray God "so that He may bless our dear country and protect the sons of Italy who are fighting bravely. . . . Every one must perform with perfect discipline the duty assigned...