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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Democratic and Republican parties alike contain within their ranks arch-conservatives and arch-liberals, since a Congressman's re-election depends not upon his unswerving support of a party program but upon the satisfaction rendered to his constituents and to pressure groups, and since there is no practicable method of enforcing party discipline in Congress, a Senator or Representative is inclined to vote for local interests rather than for national welfare. Illustrative of this unpleasant truth is the success of the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition, which has pounded the Administration's legislative program into an unrecognizable blob...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

...food package, which will contain $50 worth of valuable food items sent by college students as "a friendly gesture. . . expressing our regard for our comrades in Europe," will be transported by Professor Simmonet of the University of Paris to the Rector of the University, on the steamer lie de France...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Relief Committee Donates Food to French Students | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

...time to turn to the job at hand. The next years contain the answer to where Harvard, under Conant, is going. As the President returns from his greatest successes, he enters a phase of great trial, with the prime position of Harvard as well as his own future at stake. For a foundering Harvard will carry down with it the fate of those at the helm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 4/18/1946 | See Source »

Reuther's election "is not a catastrophe," Phil Murray decided. He added hopefully: "I would say that Walter Reuther has been contained." U.A.W.'s cocky new president had not yet taken his place at Murray's side. But he was embarrassingly close behind. It would take a lot to contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Little Redhead | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...isotopes of an element have the same chemical properties. They differ only in the number of neutrons their nuclei contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Denatured Plutonium | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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