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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stranded students remain in the U.S. Primarily as a meeting place for them, their postwar successors, and their U.S. friends present & to come, a four-story, red brick mansion on Manhattan's East 65th Street was dedicated last week as China House. Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation to the China Institute of America, it is a memorial to the late Dr. Henry Winters Luce, longtime missionary and educator in China, father of TIME'S Editor Henry Robinson Luce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: China House | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...outright gift, roughly equal to the amount of the bonus, but payable only for specified civilian rehabilitation purposes, such as buying houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: A Billion for a Million | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Died. Yoshimichi Hara, 76, close confidant of Japan's Emperor, president of Japan's Privy Council since 1938 ; in Japan. On the morning of his death, Hara was sent twelve bottles of wine by Hirohito-the customary gift of the throne to important public servants who are beyond recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...ordered a grand-scale attack. They demanded that the Federal Government pay a top unemployment compensation of $35 a week for 104 weeks (to a man with three dependents who had been earning $48 or more). Most of this would come right out of the Federal Treasury, as a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Battle of Reconversion | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Reviewing the requirements for Christmas gift-mailing to forces overseas, the Post Office Department has again established limited dates--September 15 to October 15--during which times presents may be shipped without special requests from the addressee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pseudo-Santas Told to Mail Christmas Parcels, but Early | 8/11/1944 | See Source »

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