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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point of view. The fact that a political rupture within Germany is a constant headache to the West, is a good bargaining point for Social Democrats at Bonn. The growing hope among many of the German people for complete unification can also be exploited. In fact, Russia, in an effort to take advantage of those hopes, has already established a "People's Congress" in the Eastern Zone, which is ready to announce a new "All German State" and invite unification as soon as a Western State is set up. Russian propaganda constantly reminds the people and the convention delegates that...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...futile effort. Sensing the moment, old Tom Connally ripped into Taft's logic as the kind of "haggling which takes place in a secondhand clothing store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Chipping & Chiseling | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Jacob Lawrence, a Negro expressionist, wrote that the most important thing about art to him was not expression at all, but observation. "My long-term approach is an effort to develop the insight and personal philosophy I bring to my observation. I tried to do this in The Wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Question & Answers | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...spoke in a surprisingly small, thin voice. Occasionally the judge had to stop him as he went soaring off into ideological space. He had to be stopped once again when he began to argue that the Reds had supported the U.S. war effort. It was beside the point, said the Court, "to show what good boys you were in other respects." Roughly within the framework of legal propriety Dennis made these points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Evolution or Revolution | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...write, but she taught all her boys to rob and kill and keep their mouths shut. She loved them all with a twisted, violent affection, but she was quite capable of coldly permitting a crooked, drunken physician to slash her favorite Freddie's fingers in a vain effort to alter his fingerprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Last of the Barkers | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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