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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were around his headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: POLITICS: Head Tory | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...just didn't see them-a sense a feeling of their constant presence and nearness: black men and women and children breathing and waiting inside their barred and shuttered homes, not crouching cringing shrinking, not in anger and not quite in fear: just waiting, biding since theirs was an armament which the white mati could not match nor-if he but knew it-even cope with: patience . . . this land was a desert and a witness . . . of the deliberate turning as with one back of the whole dark people on which the very economy of the land itself was founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Way Out of the Swamp? | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...between Paul Shafer and Chip Gannon for fullback. The final decision on the actual starters here will not come out until just before game-time Saturday, but whatever the outcome, it is not too significant: Coach Valpey will have his players running on and off the field in a constant stream during the game...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Varsity Eases Up On Contact, Polishes Plays | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

Reynolds listed two principal reasons for the rise: the constant increase in food costs--especially meat and dairy products--and a higher wage scale for employees than previously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Raises Fall Board Rates | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...likely to think of themselves as having worked for "the great chemical trust." They are not likely to say to a girl in the morning: "The night was in your face." They would not characterize a Nazi: "[He] belonged to the strata of activists." The characters have a constant consciousness of position, prestige and appearances that Americans do not generally feel; the book often seems an expression of German psychology in terms of American vernacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Believers & Infidels | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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