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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman threw the whole ball of fat into the fire. With a 5,500-word message which left no doubts as to which side he had picked, he vetoed the Taft-Hartley labor bill. Harry Truman had chosen the Left side of the line. He had followed the advice of Administration labor specialists and his close adviser, Clark Clifford. He had bought labor's case, lock, stock & barrel; on many points his vehement, sharply worded message to Congress (see col. 3) squared exactly with the analysis of Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s able counsel, a Communist-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The '48 Line Is Drawn | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Reached by telephone at his Danville vacation retreat yesterday afternoon, Professor Mason was at first completely unaware that he had been chosen to prepare a report with 18 other educational business, and industrial leaders under the chairmanship of W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cut Off in Vacation Retreat, Mason Hears Late Word on Truman Committee Position | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...many young violinists who feel called, Isaac Stern was one of the chosen. He had faced the fearsome scrutiny of New York critics in a Town Hall recital like dozens of other ambitious youngsters every year, and unlike most, he had won the nod. Last week, short, chunky Isaac Stern was back in Manhattan to be the first soloist o'f the season with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in the an nual summer concerts in Lewisohn Sta dium. To his native gifts, which he would be the last to call genius, he had added the three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Three Ps | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Five other Alumni, including the Chairman of the Executive Committee, Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, closed out their terms of office on the same day. A new chairman will be chosen at the June 30 meeting of the Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Choose 5 As New Overseers For 6-Year Term | 6/13/1947 | See Source »

...which it would not emerge until next June; the Yard was shady, quiet, and deserted. Ivy-covered Widener frowned down on ivy-covered Emerson and ivy-covered Sever. Vag was sorry that he had stayed in Cambridge. Better to have gone almost anywhere--New York, Maine; but he had chosen a couple of weeks of rest, and now it was almost time for the summer term to open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/13/1947 | See Source »

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