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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even if you cannot find it within your heart to defend the rights of innocent little children and heroic, helpless men like Cardinal Martyr Mindszenty* can you not have the charity not to cast upon them still another stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Day in the Lion's Mouth | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...firing continued. Scott won his first skirmish with Republican rebels at the Omaha harmony and hair-pulling meeting last winter, when he got a 54 to 50 "vote of confidence" (TIME, Feb. 7). Since then he had been trying to find a platform that everybody could stand on, while critics thought he should have been out raising money. Congressmen felt that they, not he, should do the thinking about issues. As the wrangling increased, contributions dropped off: in the first five months of this year the committee had raised only $73,630 to meet expenses of $313,673A group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disorder in the Ranks | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...main props of Juan Perón's popularity has been his policy of holding retail food prices at artificially low levels. Last week the prop was unceremoniously yanked away. Argentines awoke to find the costs of basic foodstuffs up as much as 100% overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Going Up | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Things began to relax as soon as Pax was suspended last year. By last week the fast-paced barbotte, Montreal's pet dice game, was rattling away all over town, and bookies were easy to find. Montreal's fabulous oldtime bordellos (evening dress only) were long gone, but there were plenty of girls operating from tourist homes and rooming houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Old Look | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Help at Yalta. When somebody has to find out whether the Nazis have made an atom bomb, Lanny naturally takes over the interrogation of captured scientists. Satisfied that the Nazis are not even close, he prepares a report for the Boss ("Roosevelt would get one through the Army, of course, but he would be more interested in the statement of a man whom he knew and trusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last of Lanny? | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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