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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...percent of the capital of Italian heavy industry and banking, and conscription of two million Italian workers . . . as indentured labor. The economic control in 50 percent ownership is nothing but a step toward economic exploitation. Any such exploitation will lead to a rancer among Italians which will destroy the chances for any liberal, popular regime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FDR VICTOR IN STUDENT POLL | 9/8/1944 | See Source »

Standing loftily apart from the professional revival is the United States Golf Association, conservative sponsor of the U.S. Open, the U.S. Amateur. Chicago's May boasts that after the war he will destroy tournament golf U.S.G.A.-style, with its $3.30 admission prices and its stringent definition of amateurism. Meanwhile amateurs are already stirring on their own account: in the Midwest, club tournaments have increased 100% over 1943, in New England nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf Comes Back | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...period like the Roosevelt depression, which lasted for eight years, with more than 10,000,000 unemployed continuously from 1933 to 1940, inclusive." At Springfield he had said: "We hold elections in this country in the midst of total war. . . . We hold this election because we know that we destroy the ideology of those we strike. Their strength depends upon one man. Our strength depends upon the American people, and upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dewey Takes Off | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...days the 25,000 Chamorros on Guam* had quaked in their flimsy thatch houses or hidden in caves while U.S. aircraft, battleships, cruisers and destroy ers rained explosives on the first piece of U.S. territory captured by the Japanese. Liberation was coming, but first a hail of steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Return to Guam | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jul. 31, 1944 | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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