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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such that nobody was bold enough to press the Argentine delegation for a report on, say, freedom of the press in Buenos Aires. It was not the thing to ask the representative from South Africa for a summation of the state of racial tolerance in the Transvaal, or to cross-question Egyptians on the rule of law and the state of human rights in their country "without distinction, of race, sex, language or religion." Even the Americans, constantly pressing for bold action, remained diffident. "We can't afford to give the impression that we're running this show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Without Distinction | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Left by the deaths of Historian Charles A. Beard, Educator Nicholas Murray Butler, Critic Royal Cortissoz, Scholar-Editor-Politico Wilbur L. Cross. A.A.A.L. membership (which is for life) is limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled Times | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...voices of Queen Victoria and Jenny Lind were recorded in the late 19th Century, but no copies of the recordings were preserved. The voices of all U.S. Presidents since McKinley have been impressed in wax, as was William Jennings Bryan's famed "Cross of Gold" speech delivered at the 1896 Democratic convention. Other voices recorded for posterity: Tolstoy, Lloyd George, Florence Nightingale, Ellen Terry, Gladstone, Edwin Booth, Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 13 Years in 45 Minutes | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Three Rutgera players, two each from Harvard, Princeton, and Holy Cross, and one from Yale, Colgate, and Western Reserve made up the twelve-man squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shafer, Houston Ivy Stars by Bruin Poll | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

Lineman include Jim Dicckelman, Holy Cross; Julian Buxton, Princeton; Bob Hughes, Western Reserve; Jim Talgia, Rutgers; Bob Ochs, Rutgers; and Tom Kelicher, Holy Cross. Backfield men are Frank Burns, Rutgers; Levl Jackson, Yale, George Sella, Princeton; Armand Allaire, Colgate; and Shafer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shafer, Houston Ivy Stars by Bruin Poll | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

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