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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.A.W. statesmen around the conference table burst into song: "Thomas is our leader, we shall not be moved. . . ." Patient, hard-working Jim Dewey hoped they could be moved just a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man at Work | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Near Tel-Aviv, Jews in battledress attacked an army camp with hand grenades, killed a British officer and a Negro sentry. The British had no time to call out their club-&-shield-toting police pickets (see cut). With a bellow of rage, African native soldiers burst out after the attackers. Storming into the nearby Jewish village of Holon, they sprayed it with bullets, hit anything that moved. Before their officers could round up the berserk blacks, an old man had been riddled with bullets, a boy ripped with bayonets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Homecoming | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...heat. As I make for the door, I hear a moderately loud explosion; at the same time, the window breaks in with a loud crash. I am sprayed by fragments of glass. The entire window frame has been forced into the room. I realize now that a bomb has burst and I am under the impression that it exploded directly over our house. I am bleeding from cuts about the hands and head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: FROM HIROSHIMA: A REPORT AND A QUESTION | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...democratic machinery in order later to destroy it. We have seen what it brings. We want democracy, but if any fascist gets elected by hoodwinking the people, we'll shoot the sonofabitch, like this-" And Stenia swung her Tommy gun around as if firing a deadly burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Peasant & the Tommy Gun | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prodigal's Return | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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