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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME [Aug. 5] ... took notice of the Jury 19 decision of the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of my petition to revoke the licenses of certain San Francisco radio stations for making their facilities available for religious programs . . . against atheism, but refusing time for atheistic talks. You said ... I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Lawyer Jester's public batting average was 1,000. In his first try for political office he won a seat on the railroad commission in 1942, was re-elected to a full six-year term two years later. He had his own explanation for his victory, which fitted in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Texans' Texan | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

The Paris Peace Conference last week chalked up the following achievements: 1) with the first Germanic accents heard by the conference, Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber asked for a new deal on South Tyrol; 2) eleven small powers on the Italian Political and Territorial Commission voted down the Big Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Problems of the Peace | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Bernard Baruch's friends handed him a 76th birthday present which everybody earnestly hoped would look just as jolly to the world a decade hence. It was a playful Derso-&-Kelen cartoon of Baruch and fellow delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission, all dressed up like Dumas' jolly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Homing Pigeons | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Confused Policy. Partly to blame for this was the U.S. Government itself; so far it has bungled its comparatively new job as foreign agent for the airlines. As it now stands U.S. air policy is set and controlled by five separate, sometimes conflicting agencies-the CAB, the U.S. Maritime Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: All Dressed Up | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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