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We have known about Half Moon Mountain almost since its inception. About a year ago Composer-Pianist Edwin Otto Gerschefski, dean of music at Spartanburg's Converse College, wrote us about his plan. He said he was a weekly reader of TIME with a habit of clipping stories and...
He cherished a secret pride in his ability to handle the Führer. On his visits, he carried along maps and architectural plans in which Hitler found a childish delight. Nothing that happened in Germany was beyond or beneath Lammers' passion for detail. The prosecution last week produced...
When Presidential Press Secretary Charlie Ross read about this striped-pants stupidity, he took the clipping in to the boss. He told Harry Truman that he was "damned sick & tired of this guilt by association and pillorying of decent citizens." The President agreed, picked up a phone, and told State...
After much haggling, Lord Addison read a new statement of Labor's policy. He agreed to the conference the Tories wanted, dodged the question of clipping the peers' powers. The Addison formula: "The discussion of the powers of the [Lords] should be limited to ensuring reasonable time for...
Wing Clipping. It was the opening shot in Labor's campaign to clip the wings of the House of Lords. As Prime Minister Attlee explained to the House of Commons later, the 1911 act prevented the Lords from holding up "money bills" introduced in the House of Commons, but...