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...have little choice but to cancel the tour," stated G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music and Glee Club conductor, explaining regretfully that the major part of the trip was to have been though Sweden and Holland. The remainder of the tour consisted only of short three-day jaunts through Denmark, Finland, and Norway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Shelves Plans for Europe Tour This Summer | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...most turbulent sessions in Brazil's legislative history reached its climax last week. The issue: Bill 900-A, a measure to cancel the mandates (jobs) of all Communist legislators. For hours in the summer heat, shouts and insults were traded back & forth. Deputies screamed, leaped on the benches, fell back in steaming exhaustion as the galleries shrieked approval. A Communist cry of "sellout" brought the pistols of government deputies waving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Reds on the Run | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Syria and Lebanon were for all-out war by League members and economic pressure on backers of the U.N. partition plan. But Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan advised caution. In his desert fortress-capital at Riyadh, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia said that reports that he would cancel U.S. oil concessions were "untrue and irresponsible." "Our friendship with the U.S. is solid and well established,'' said Ibn Saud. "We believe [the U.S.] made a mistake in the U.N. Palestine decision, but we hope [the U.S.] will correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Heads Together | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...after the Communist Party had been outlawed, two months after diplomatic relations with Russia had been broken, Brazil's House of Deputies was still arguing about what to do with the one Communist Senator (Leader Luis Carlos Prestes) and 16 Deputies who still held office. A bill to cancel the Communists' mandates recently passed the Senate. Last fortnight, it got out of a House committee, whereupon the Communists tried to stall it by proposing no less than 320 amendments. This week, on the floor, they were ready with another tried & true parliamentary technique-the filibuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Filibuster | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...suburbia. But last week it was having trouble keeping its comics. Writers Stanley and Betsy Baer said they did not want their Nebbs in Communist company, and the Worker let them go. Then Artist Byrnes said he wanted to withdraw his strip. The Worker said no. It would not cancel its contract with the Bell Syndicate. Byrnes threatened to fill the strip with anti-Communist digs. Taunted the Worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Afraid of What? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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