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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on the eve of the crucial Wisconsin primary (see U.S. AFFAIRS), Oda really went to town. On one side of his doorway he pasted a colored drawing of the Statue of Liberty. But in place of the goddess' face and diadem were the features and military cap of Douglas MacArthur. At the figure's feet, in a litter of skulls and bones, lay a trampled black dragon, "Anti-Democracy," with features unmistakably resembling Joseph Stalin's. Oda's latest ode was tacked to the opposite doorway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Gensui Has Sokojikara | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe and cap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Accept . . . | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Last week, after four days of hearing the evidence, 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury found the steward guilty of murder. Mr. Justice Hilbery donned the black cap. Did Camb have anything to say before he was sentenced? "My Lord," replied Camb coolly, "at the beginning of this case ... I pleaded not guilty. I repeat that statement now. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Don Jimmy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...fence is the Navy. The sailors play a rough and ready game with the accent on checking and power plays and last year's aggregation dropped a 15-1 game to them. A win over either Maryland or Navy would be an ostrich plume in Maddux's cap...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

...face up to some practical political problems. One of them was created by Douglas MacArthur's position. As a General of the Army on active service, he was screened by Army regulations, which forbid his making political speeches or engaging in any political activity. His gold-braided cap was not actually in the ring at all, but at its edge. He could pull it out at any time-as he had, in effect, after running second to Tom Dewey in Wisconsin's 1944 primary. Even more important was the fact that General MacArthur has not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Announcement from Tokyo | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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