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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Something for Nothing." The Brannan plan was "economic jabberwocky"; if it worked, it would be "the most amazing miracle since the loaves and the fishes." Federal aid to education meant federal-controlled schools. The Democratic Party, like the Communists, was "pretending a great love for human welfare that can find expression only by giving more & more power to the all-powerful central government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Something New | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...York City, which enjoys a good show, was having a pleasantly lively time in the mayoralty campaign. Neither greying, genial Democratic Mayor Bill O'Dwyer, nor his Republican-Liberal-Fusion challenger, Newbold Morris, could find any real excuse to call each other hard names. The Communist Party's favorite Congressman, shrill little Vito Marcantonio, had no real chance. There was no real issue. But the candidates were cartwheeling through a sort of political acrobatic contest, which provided wholesome free entertainment for young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fun for Young & Old | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Managing Editor Russell McGrath of the conservative, successful Seattle Times (circ. 208,442) wound up his instructions to Reporter Edwin O. Guthman. Leaning across the desk in his office, McGrath told Guthman: "The courts have broken down. Now it's our job to find out the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Guthman hustled out of the city room with a long-term assignment: to find the truth about Melvin Rader, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Before the state legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1948, Melvin Rader had been labeled a Communist. His accuser, ex-Communist George Hewitt, charged that Rader had attended a secret party school near Kingston, N.Y. for six weeks in the summer of 1938. Rader's reply was a detailed denial: he was not a Communist, and he had spent the summer of 1938 in Seattle and at Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

This week, having cleared the innocent, the Times was trying to find out who was guilty. From the state attorney general, the speaker of the house and the president of the senate, Reporter Guthman extracted a promise to search the Canwell committee's sealed records for the missing resort register. Snapped Canwell: "If you think the register has been suppressed, go find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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