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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elder Warbis might have been exaggerating his dislike of son Thomas' work, for Warbis senior had submitted it to the exhibition in the first place. When Warbis junior and his mother went to see the show, the young artist had a chance to defend his own painting, but he had nothing to say for publication. He simply grinned at the flabbergasted gallerygoers. Once he went off and stood on his head in a corner. Modern Artist Warbis was just seven, had painted Skegness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All the More Interesting | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Speaker Rayburn had relinquished the chair and was prowling around the House, perching here & there, nervous and anxious. Minority Leader Joe Martin took the floor to defend the softened version of the Taft-Hartley Act (the Wood bill), which was backed by the Republican-Southern coalition. Then Rayburn's compromise package was introduced. Sam himself stepped out on the floor. Eloquently, somewhat defensively, he appealed for votes for his measure: "Let us not have one sector of Americans known as labor . . . believe that we would press down upon their brow a crown of thorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: By a Hair | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Some cattlemen are attacking coyotes too; they claim that coyotes are killing calves at a rate that has become serious. The highly bred modern cow cannot defend her calf as the thin, stringy and wild range cows once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Part of the Life | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie Palmer had learned every trick. Last week in Washington, he used them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Love Story | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Frank and von Mises will present and defend the "Positivist" system of philosophy, and Williams will take the opposition. "Positivism" is a scientific philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final SANSS Session | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

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