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...Henry Morgenthau [then Secretary of the Treasury] . . . kept wanting to know where he stood [with Truman] and finally, one day, put the question point-blank to the President. What happened then reminds me of the epitaph I once saw on a tombstone in a Western mining town :He kept asking for it until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Spreading Itch | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Epitaph. In Bogota, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo, deploring the Texas City disaster, editorialized: "Texas, an important city of the U.S., was completely destroyed by a fearful fire. Nothing remains of Texas, the cradle of all the cowboys of the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Named after Frederick Winslow Taylor, a Philadelphia mechanic who in the '90s devised "scientific management." In The Big Money, John Dos Passos wrote this epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Last of an American | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

There to Stay. These words, which described realities, had the grim sound of an epitaph. But the Truman Doctrine might conceivably be U.N.'s salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dangerous Life | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Last week, after 87 days of being picketed, Stern wrote a front-page epitaph for the Record: "Guild policy has acted to restrict the rights of management to a degree where it has become too great a burden to operate a completely independent press. . . . Philadelphia's liberal newspaper has been chosen by this one union as a target for its unusual theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nobody Wins | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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