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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small-arms battle that raged below and across the ships' decks, they settled their argument. When Paraguay's Ambassador Alfonso Dos Santos rushed down to fix things for Morínigo, he was kicked bodily down the gangplank. Three officers went to the hospital. Then, under command of Lieut. Rolando Ibarra, the gunboats cast off, sailed away to join the revolutionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: The Battle of Buenos Aires | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Speaking immediately preceding the voting, Wilbur J. Bander '97, newly-appointed Dean of the College, outlined the University chain of command for the gathering, which included the present as well as future Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Chosen President Of Council for 1947-'48 | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

Having flown many thousand miles in Air Transport Command-managed lines, where "customers" were nonpaying, yet courteously treated, my introduction to [a] commercial airline's bid for traffic was a rude awakening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Switch. That night, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez called a meeting of the political bureau. The question: should the party side with the Government of which it was a part, or with the workers of its own rank & file? Andre Marty, French Communism's third in command (a longtime opponent of Thorez' "respectable" policy of collaborating with bourgeois politics), pounded the table. Cried he: "If we allow this situation to develop, we will have broken our most important tactical rule, which is never to permit our left flank to be turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crisis | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder, plunder and "complete synchronization" with the Nazi High Command. The burden of the indictment was that, without Farben, the Nazis could not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Criminals All? | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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