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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach: Lt. Col. Henry...
...public took the Greer incident (see col. 3) fatalistically. Something like this had long been expected, and it might have passed as a one-day sensation, as easily forgotten as the sinking of the Robin Moor. Said Isolationist Senator Bob Reynolds: "It was a very simple incident. ... It seems there was no damage to the Greer...
...annual harvesttime outbreak of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) neared its peak last week, rumors of an epidemic swept southern and eastern U.S. They were exaggerated. Nowhere did the disease reach epidemic proportions. Hundreds of cases were reported (as against only two cases of plague-see col. 1). But hundreds of cases are not abnormal at this time of year. Facts...
...nations trembled before a climax in Russia (see col. 3). They witnessed a terror in France (see p. 24). They got a new campaign in Iran (see below). As had been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked...
First it was your constant use of the abortive term Negress; your farfetched designation of pickaninnies in a Chicago department store. . . . Now it is your use of "darky-driven" trucks! (TIME, July 21, p. 33, col. 1.) Damn!! What is wrong with TIME's policy toward the American Negro in the last year and a half? It's getting so I can't read an article about the race without being insulted...