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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For a few more minutes he chatted on, about the new responsibilities of the Demo cratic party about his dream of bringing Point Four development to the backward areas of the world. Said the President: "I am more than convinced that the Democratic Party, the party of the people, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Most Happy Evening | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Be It Resolved . . . Californians, who last November voted the nation's costliest old-ae pensions, last week reconsidered their budget-busting generosity. By a 400,000 majority, they slapped down demagogic George McLain's Citizens' Committee for Old Age Pensions (TIME, Sept. 5) despite support of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Be It Resolved . . . | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

¶ Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Be It Resolved . . . | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

A few hours later, dressed in his best suit and a white sailor cap, Artie walked into the Waldorf and explained that his mother was waiting at La Guardia Field with his ticket. He fumbled when the airport bus driver asked for the $1.25 fare until a kindly passenger coughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Airborne Stowaway | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Coca-Colonized? As the Foreign Ministers continued their talks in the Parrot Room of the French Foreign Ministry, Schuman grew increasingly nervous. With a foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Traffic Jam | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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