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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great political courage; he is no respecter of sacred cows. In the middle of the campaign last fall, he attacked the legal and moral Tightness of the Nurnberg trials-to the deep embarrassment of his party. A speech which he delivered at the Yale Engineering Club last spring was characteristic of him. In that brief address he attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Age of Taft | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Split | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Northern Eden? Nahanni is Indian for "people over there, far away." The Indians shun the place for its mammoth grizzlies and the evil spirits wailing in its deep canyons. Of the hunters and prospectors who have gone in, 13 have not returned. Around them most of the tall tales have sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Home of Devils? | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...caribou, they said, cropped the green pastures. Last week the tales had grown so fantastic that the Vancouver Sun's columnist, Jack Scott, burlesqued the Nahanni as a "bodyless valley where ripe bananas hang from the boughs of pine trees [and] dusky native girls swim about in the deep, warm pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Home of Devils? | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Bacteria found in deep sea mud might soon make oil wells as buggy as vinegar works. Last week Dr. Claude E. ZoBell, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., announced that he was well along on a process to infect exhausted oilsands with these bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ferrets in the Oilfields | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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