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Observers predicted that Yoshida would need more shots of MacArthurian adrenalin if he was to survive in spite of his lack of tact. Sample: some time ago he invited two U.S. correspondents of Irish descent to dinner in an effort to enlist their help in mitigating occupation directives-which, said he, "as you Irishmen can understand, are too oppressive for the proud to bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Shot in the Arm | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Student Council Committee on the General Education Report will hold a reorganizational meeting at 5 o'clock Monday in the Student Council Room of Phillips Brooks House. The Council is especially anxious to enlist those men away during the war years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Reorganizes | 3/1/1946 | See Source »

...meet this crisis, the Vatican looks to the ideological and material support of the U.S. To enlist U.S. support, it looks chiefly to the devout but uniquely American career and character of Francis Cardinal Spellman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: America in Rome | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...just been released from the Army, will probably be settled down in labor relations. Breezy, talkative, he liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with motors more than the other boys, plans to attend Yale before he joins up with his brothers. By that time, Young Henry's gamble may be won-or lost. These days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Young Henry Takes a Risk | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

When war came John Amery turned up in Vichy France. He spoke over the German radio, tried to enlist British prisoners for action against the Russians. In spite of John Amery's family connections, it took British justice just eight minutes to accept his plea of guilty, sentence John Amery to be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honors & Death | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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