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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Ambassador Jozef Winiewicz presented his credentials to President Truman. President Truman replied with a brisk dressing-down: "It is a cause of deep concern to me and to the American people that the Polish Provisional Government has failed to fulfill that pledge [to hold free elections]." The Polish-American press chimed in. Crowed Chicago's Dziennik Zwiazkowy: TRUMAN

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dressing Down | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...cage. Its author, brother of Congressman Paul Shafer (R., Mich.), has worked on newspapers from San Francisco to Paris, but would rather live in his home town, Three Rivers, Mich. (pop. 6,710). Most of Chet's columns are as casual as any street-corner conversation: they concern a funeral, a backyard spat, an old gaffer's boyhood reminiscence, or plain cigar-store gossip. Sometimes he reports technological progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bumpkins' Biographer | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Stressing the fact that the Society is "not an action group, but an educational and discussion group," Brooks yesterday announced two study units for the term. Topic for one will be "The Economics of Socialism," while the other will concern itself with an analysis of the book, "The Acquisitive Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Discussion Group Approves Constitution | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...term, a free election. Not even the staunchest government supporters claim that it was. Estimates as to the degree of freedom that was allowed and evaluation of the result had complete freedom been permitted are at best a matter of highly conflicting opinions. An issue of more vital concern is: amidst the recent Polish atmosphere, was a completely free election possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Eagle--White Eagle | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

...genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only over small Mt. Clemens Pottery, but over all industry. The oracular Court gave a hint, however, on how the monster might be lured back into the bottle. Under the legal doctrine of de minimis ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"), all small amounts of makeready time were to be disregarded. With that, the Court handed the case back to Judge Picard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measurement of Trifles | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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