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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress) with a little speech to officials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "I hope it will be possible for you to help me to help the veterans of this country understand that this United States is theirs . . . and there are certain limits to which its financial welfare cannot be stretched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Think I'll Buy It | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Mengelberg: "I am not like many other conductors ... I do not envy anyone success. If someone tells me there is a conductor who is superior to Mengelberg, I bow humbly." After a moment's thought, he added: "But whenever I hear that person's performance, I simply cannot understand what makes people think he might be better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Bow Humbly | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...because of overcrowded classrooms or overloaded schedules that teachers are falling down on the job, said Dean Carman. The big reason is that teachers themselves are not being taught to teach. Said he: "We have persisted in the assumption . . . that good teachers are born, hence cannot be made . . . The truth of the matter is that teachers can be made, but at present are not being made, or are being made badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From Bell to Bell | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

According to Lionel ("The Toy") Train ocC, chief promoter and engineer, ceremonies are set to take place, and because they will be held on the grounds of the "sovereign State of Lampoon," police cannot legally interfere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laffmen Secede In Half Manassas | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

Slichter urged that safeguards of the right of workers to obtain or retain union membership be written into the new law. This would not abolish the closed shop, he said, but would protect it against abuses. "The closed shop cannot be prohibited without gravely disturbing employer-union relations in many industries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slichter Demands Many Changes in Taft-Hartley Law | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

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