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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegate-hunting, he told reporters, but his supporters were sending out circulars in his behalf. He had no second choice for the nomination, and California's 53 delegates had assured him that they had no second choice either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Television Triumph | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Peter J. McGuinness had always liked to talk. He was born and raised in Greenpernt and left it only once, to work as a lumber inspector in the South. He soon came back explaining: "I don't like that Jim Crow they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Grief in Greenpernt | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Something or Nothing. White-faced and nervous, faced with a critical and hostile Assembly, Bidault showed little stomach for the job. The deputies would not hear from him "either expressions of enthusiasm or excuses"; it was "a case of getting something or taking nothing." His voice drooping, Bidault reviewed his major defeats and minor victories. He had failed to have the Ruhr cut off from Germany. He had failed to sell the French program of a loose federation of German states as the political structure of the new Germany. Worst of all, perhaps, he had failed to get sufficient guarantees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Edge of an Abyss | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...activity-so long as it is in favor of the regime. Newspapers which thundered against Castillo's decrees have with but one exception been silenced by Perón's subsidies and newsprint restrictions ; and even great La Prensa is visibly weakening. Recently the government decreed that either Argentines or foreigners may be jailed for such general crimes as 'promoting discords or antagonisms dangerous to the public tranquillity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: After Five Years | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Busy Air | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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