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...Communists getting in Latin America? Four months ago, the New York Times decided to find out. On a 16,000-mile tour of every capital south of the Rio Grande it sent burly William (Bill) Lawrence, onetime Moscow correspondent. Last week, Lawrence was back and the Times printed his colorless, cautious report. Highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Red Harvest | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Missouri. A Republican swell is running -for many Missourians are not proud of their native son in the White House. Harry Truman's appointed successor, hamhanded Senator Frank Briggs, will probably lose to neat, conservative, colorless James P. Kem, unless the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and the P.A.C. in St. Louis can roll up an overwhelming Democratic vote. Briggs's theme: loyalty to Truman. Kem's strategy: wham away at controls, left-wingers, Pendergastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Senate Sweepstakes | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Republicans, who had been none too happy with their nominee in the 4th District, a colorless ex-Socialist named John Brophy, could afford to sit back and watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Caught with the Goods | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: St. George & the Farmers | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...Ohio, colorless, cautious Senator James W. Huffman, backed by popular Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-shay), easily swept to victory over ex-Representative Stephen Young and P.A.C.-backed Marvin C. Harrison in the Democratic primary. His November opponent: "Honest John" Bricker, darling of G.O.P. conservatives, unchallenged in his own primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jim's Surprise | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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