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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never have I (even as a son of Greek parents) had such a clear picture of the Greek characteristics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...million as an added inducement, Freddie sang with simple dignity: "I trample on your gold..." Cowder: He scorns my daughter's addresses! Freddie: Thus do I treat all dollar princesses! The Chorus: He won't consent? Extremely queer He must be mad, it's very clear. Alice (weeping): Oh the disgrace, I cannot bear it... Freddie (in lilting three-quarter time): Her every action confesses The fortune she is worth The proudest of dollar princesses- Is sometimes the poorest on earth...(Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: The Dollar Princess | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...opportunistic rabble-rouser with no clear-cut political faith, Ex-Miner Juan Lechin got control of the tin union during the wartime regime of Dictator-President Gualberto Villaroel. After Villaroel was hanged to a lamppost in 1946 and his Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) disrupted, Lechin was among the first to cheer the new democratic government. But he missed no chance to badger it with ever-mounting wage demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: 20th Century Riot | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Wyoming's slender, shaggy-browed Joseph C. O'Mahoney stood up on the Senate floor last week and exclaimed: "It is clear to me that someone has to straighten it out . . . [with] plain language." The "it" was the confusion over prices caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's outlawing of the cement industry's basing point system (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Clearing the Air | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...schools should continue with vigor their programs for giving young citizens a clear understanding of the principles of the American way of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Eisenhower, 18 Educators Urge Ban on Communist Teachers | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

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