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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone; no Government spending on such luxuries as social legislation. That would bring lower prices at the corner grocery. It would also mean lower wages, lower profits, and lower farm income. Whether or not the U.S. people were willing to swallow such bitter medicine, neither political party would'dare prescribe it in an election year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: No Painless Way | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...would start arming Israel while Britain continued to arm theArabs. U.S. policy finally crystallized in a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for sanctions (i.e., punishment) against either side that refused or broke the truce. Britain supported the resolution. Against that united front, the warring parties did not dare to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: New Lease | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Cotton-haired Boss Ed Crump, who not only looks like Foxy Grandpa but acts like him, has had it all his own way in Tennessee's Democratic politics for years & years. Many a Tennessean had come to believe that nobody would ever dare challenge the old Red Snapper of Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: A Fright for Crump | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Clare Boothe Luce paid tribute of a sort to Eleanor Roosevelt, another writer, by urging her on the Democrats as their ideal candidate for Vice President. Her theory: Harry Truman might well ride into a new term on Eleanor Roosevelt's coattails. "I dare to suggest this winning formula to the Democrats," the Republican ex-Congresswoman concluded, "because it is almost certain that, being men first and Democrats second, they will not have the courage, vision or intelligence to adopt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Coming & Going | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gulliver in Context | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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