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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President also: <| Nominated two prominent Democratic job-hunters to $15,000-a-year jobs: Washington's former Governor Mon C. Wall-gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

There were some failures. The 81st Congress had meanly failed to liberalize D.P. legislation. It had approved six executive reorganization plans submitted by Harry Truman, but ignored the basic reforms outlined by the Hoover Commission. It had failed to authorize funds for President Truman's Point Four program for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

The nation's coal stockpile was down to 43 days' supply and dwindling steadily. That would not have been alarming if the coal was distributed properly, but it was not. A prize batch, 10 million tons, was piled in the idle steel industry's bins. The New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Squeeze | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Though the government set up a commission to investigate the find, hardly anyone doubted its authenticity. The Bank of Mexico's research laboratories announced that the documents which led to the unearthing of Cuauhtemoc's bones were indeed 400 years old, and that the ink, writing and signature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Whose Bones? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

As for the backfield, it is fairly light for a Crusader team but being all-sophomore its consequent inexperience has been the source of many of Osmanski's troubles. Fumbles and penalties, among other errors of omission and commission, have hurt Holy Cross to the extent of five straight losses...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson, Crusader Elevens Try for First Victory Today | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

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