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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Widow's Lot. At 64, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has become, perhaps, the best-known woman in the world. Three years after her husband's death, she has reversed the usual lot of presidents' widows by gaining measurably in stature and prestige. She is a unique combination of Citizeness Fix-it and great lady. Today hers is the best-known among the many well-known names at the United Nations. She is the only U.S. delegate who has been named to every Assembly. She has been voted the most popular living American in a magazine poll, proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: First Lady | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Health officials in all affected areas were worrying about epidemics. The death rate was up; it was hard to know how much. Said a Red Cross official: "The only check we really have is the number of requests we get for shrouds." In his area the demand for shrouds had doubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The New D.P.s | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...relief contributed by Arab neighbors so far had amounted to about $6,000,000. More than that would be needed. Shortly before his death, U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte had issued a worldwide appeal to governments and private organizations for help against "a great human disaster." From 14 nations he got specific promises. The U.S. told Bernadotte that private American assistance had amounted to $800,000, that the U.S. Government was thinking over whether it should do something more. If the U.S. came to the rescue, it might restore part of its shattered prestige in the Arab world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The New D.P.s | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Acting Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson agreed that allocations had just about been done to death-but by a different hand. He had asked the Department of Commerce's Steel Products Advisory Committee (composed of 27 of the industry's top executives) for enough steel to permit all oil line-pipe mills and mine machinery makers to operate at capacity. The committee had turned him down. Last week Davidson accused the committee of "supplying steel for nonessential and even frivolous purposes ... I can draw no conclusion . . . other than that the steel industry has decided to jettison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher -- and Scarcer | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...slogan "Birth Control is against God's Law" is probably the most immoral and the most stupid creed over proposed in the history of man. Uncontrolled birth rates must inevitably and rapidly lead to starvation, misery, ignorance, and high death rates. Population growth must be controlled either by high death rates or by low birth rates. There is no alternative. Karl Sax, Professor of Botany

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "God's Law" | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

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