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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasized a need for a uniformity of officiating. "Hockey is too good a game," Kiphuth said, "to allow such incidents to destroy the fine relationship enjoyed between Harvard and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiphuth Backs Investigation Of Refereeing in Ivy Hockey | 3/20/1948 | See Source »

Said an Athens spokesman: the plan "was intended to destroy Greece by destroying Greece's future-her youth." The Greek government hurried off a sharp note to the U.N. Balkan committee in Salonika, charging the Reds with "genocide," and asked for immediate action. Two committees were appointed and the issue labeled "top priority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: As the Twig Is Bent | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...popular, ex-convict Mayor James Michael Curley, addressing the United Spanish War Veterans, plumped for MacArthur for President, but doubted that his man would make it. Both parties, his honor averred, want "a passive man who would appease Wall Street and the C.I.O.," so they shipped MacArthur overseas "to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Rallying Point. The attacker was ex-President Herbert Hoover. Unlike Dulles, he loaded a qualified endorsement of ERP with objections that would destroy the plan piecemeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Help from Abroad | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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