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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under his photographer's black cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Royal Family | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Virginia's influence has diffused through out the South and the nation in letters, on the bench, in the cloth, in medicine, the army and navy, and most famously in public office. Admiral William F. Halsey and Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., belong to the same alumni association which nominally includes Pee and one Nathaniel R. Clanton of Augusta, Ga., black sheep of his class, who was killed on the barri cades of the Paris Commune...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Old Virginia Nurtures Gentry Before Scholars Jefferson's Child Turns Out Wealthy, Wild, and Wooly Grads | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...target the now well-known article by "X" which recently appeared in the magazine Foreign Affairs. "X" was George Kennan, top State Department planner and Russian expert. The State Department denied that the article inspired the Truman Doctrine, but the thinking behind both was certainly cut from the same cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lippmann's Cold War | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Nanking, the Government announced "thrift and austerity" decrees to save dwindling foreign exchange and increase efficiency. The Government payroll (on which, a Cabinet spokesman estimated, some 18 million Chinese, including Army and students, now depend) would be reduced immediately. Food, cloth, gasoline and newsprint would come under new rationing and conservation restrictions. The number of official banquets would be reduced, and official meetings would start on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Ivory Tower | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...they began their slow, solemn progress to Nehru's house. Ahead walked the flutist, stopping every 100 yards or so to sit on the road and play his flute for about 15 minutes. Another escort bore a large silver platter. On it was the pithambaram (cloth of God), a costly silk fabric with patterns of golden thread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Oh Lovely Dawn | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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