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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely, such a miscarriage of justice as occurred in the courtroom at Plymouth could not happen in America. Daily we read of such events in Communist countries where [murderers] go scot free because of their warped legal system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Against this $40 or $50 billion program stands the 1929 budget: in that prosperous year it took only $3.8 billion to run the U.S. Government. It took $7.3 billion in free-spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BIG GOVERNMENT | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Veterans of the Luxembourg post calculated that the job of running U.S. diplomatic affairs there would leave her about 23 hours of. free time each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: An Oyster for Perle | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...some 4,000 Berliners solemnly gathered around Tempelhof. The huge square in front of the airport was renamed "Platz der Luitbrücke" (Airbridge Square). Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter told the crowd that they were in a fight which would not end until "all our people are free." He remembered how, when General Lucius Clay first told him that the U.S. would supply Berlin by air, he had remarked to the general's aide: "It's wonderful to hear Clay's determination, but I don't believe it can be done." Said the aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Happy Birthday | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Cells & Pipelines. With the help of these adherents and with reviving elements of the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers, A.D. set up an underground. It now has cells throughout the country and free-flowing pipelines into the army as well as into the government. Even the junta's most secret acts are reported in one of the underground's ten "newspapers." Resistencia is the largest. Though possession of a copy is cause for immediate arrest, Resistencia's hand-to-hand circulation has doubled to 8,000 in two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underground Revival | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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