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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luncheon hour; only a dozen Senators lolled at their seats as Connecticut's Brien McMahon spoke. "The day will come," he said, "when the Soviet Union will achieve atomic weapons. When that day will be, no man knows. But that it will come is as certain as that I stand on the floor of the Senate today." McMahon was reciting the arguments for the Administration's $1,314,010,000 military-aid program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Day Will Come | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...most fundamental features of this plan would be pedestrian cross-walks bridging Massachusetts Avenue at strategic locations. According to Wagner, shoppers would have to realize that they, as well as vehicles, should obey certain rules as to where and when to cross streets...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...initial expenses and case the taxpayer's burden. Until this is accomplished, nothing looms in the immediate offing to ease his parking problem except more meters and new business and residential zoning laws. Many such laws now on the bocks require business establishments to supply parking space for a certain proportion of their trade. Large apartment houses are also supposed to allow one off-the-street parking space for every three occupants, but these and similar ordinances are constantly ignored...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...have nothing to fear (from communism) so long as we come to understand the nature of our own culture and remain free to estimate coolly the forces which account for the virulent vitality of Communism in certain quarters of the earth," he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Talks At Radcliffe's 71st Opening | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

Fraternities play a key part in this student government. Although about one third of the men live in fraternities, most of the student offices are held by Greek letter men. Sometimes, appointive positions are by custom considered the permanent property of a certain fraternity...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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