Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on the fight against cancer, they were confronted with any number of first-rate men and institutions from which to select their cover subject. Manhattan's Memorial Hospital was chosen because it offered a complete cross-section of modern cancer research, and its director, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, was a leading symbol of this effort...
...advisers poked their fingers. Employment was still high (59.6 million), but unemployment was rising (to 3.8 million in June). Production was off 13% from last fall's peak. Wholesale prices had dropped 9% since last August; business profits were down 13%, and farm income was 8% under the first half...
...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...
Great Discomfort. The opposition was represented by three points of view. First there were the hard-shelled isolationists like North Dakota's William Langer. They had a surprising ally in elderly, mustached Ralph Flanders of Vermont, a longtime internationalist. He thought the pact did not go far enough; he wanted to turn it into a rejuvenated U.N., equipped with its own international police force. Senator Flanders was convinced that the Politburo had set out to ruin us economically . . . by a "budgetary ambush," forcing the U.S. into a bankrupting arms race...
Orchestral Theme. At first Stryker talked almost into the jurors' faces until he was apparently warned off by his colleagues. They observed that the jurors were not warming up to the performance. After this Stryker stood back. There was only one witness in the whole world who said Hiss had transmitted State Department documents to Chambers in February and March of 1938, Stryker pointed out. That was Chambers. He quoted Prosecutor Tom Murphy's opening statement: "If you don't believe Chambers, then the Government has no case...