Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerned, the test of how thoroughly TIME's convention staff did its job rests in its forecast of the balloting. Before the convention Domestic Bureau Chief David Hulburd's U.S. correspondents and stringers, including Washington Bureau Chief Jim Shepley's staff, had filed detailed information on each state's delegation, estimating its possible first and second ballot choices, describing the background of key delegates, etc. At the Convention this work was continued painstakingly to the point where, the day before the balloting, National Affairs Editor Otto Fuerbringer made some calculations and announced that Dewey ought...
...Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...
...spiritual leader of Mexico's million-odd Evangelistas, Bishop David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God is in a tough spot. In Roman Catholic Mexico the members of his sect, who are most numerous in rural areas, are generally treated as outcasts. Their revivalistic meetings are sometimes stoned. Small boys ring Evangelista doorbells, then run, or paint Viva Cristo Rey (Long Live Christ the King) on Evangelista walls. Since President Manuel Avila Camacho announced in 1940 that he was a "believer," and thus took the government heat off the Roman Catholic church, anti-Protestant persecution of the proselyting...
...that's fit to print. Executives sit at the south end, a full block away from some of their reporters. Turner Catledge, assistant to James, was given a pair of opera glasses by his staff to survey the farthest reaches of the room. Near by sits City Editor David Joseph, a shy, balding, quiet-spoken bachelor of 61. His public-address system is one-way; staffers who want to talk back have to hike over to his desk...
...every commencement speaker knows, the sure-fire approach is to bewail the failure of your own generation, and then in ringing tones challenge the next one to do better. Few speakers have more tellingly indicted the old or more specifically counseled the new than Atomic Energy Boss David Lilienthal, addressing the University of Virginia's graduating class last week. Said...