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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Washington, Correspondent Louis Banks turned out 24 pages of research gathered from David Lilienthal and members of his Atomic Energy Commission. Banks also had a session with Oppenheimer, from which he came away reeling to insert the following sentence in his account: "Oppenheimer was up before 8 o'...
Civil Rights. A federal anti-lynching law; repeal of the poll tax in the seven states which still have it; a law against segregation and discrimination in interstate transportation; a permanent federal Fair Employment Practice Commission to see that there is no discrimination in jobs.
In 50-man teams "the Legion of Apostles" last week preached vaccination against deadly aftosa (foot & mouth disease). Across central Mexico, the missionaries of science marched ahead to prepare the way for the nine vaccinating brigades of the joint U.S.-Mexican anti-aftosa commission.
To buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to...
Were the editorial writers doing any enlightening? Said Hutchins: "Look at what you did to the report of the Commission on the Freedom of the Press." Hutchins, who was chairman of the commission (TIME, March 31, 1947), said some editorial writers just plain lied about the report, and had ignored...