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...been posted in key Canadian centers under orders from Moscow to "confuse and discourage" incoming D.P.s. They work in teams, he said. Some Communists meet incoming D.P.s on the piers at eastern ports. Others contact them on their trains as they head for their new homes. The Communists constantly harass the immigrants, said Bishop Ladyka, and try to bribe them to return to Europe. They tell the immigrants "that they have been 'exported' here for slave labor." They offer to "produce the 'ransom' to 'rescue' the D.P.s if they will join the ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Met at the Train | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Proposal. In a final maneuver to harass Republicans, Georgia's Russell slyly proposed that the president pro tempore of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg, be placed in front of Speaker Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...edge Adams, Winthrop, Dunster, Kirkland, Eliot, and Lowell in that order. Joe Gordon of Adams was high man with a 72, followed by Dick Drury of Leverett (78), and Tom Dolan of Winthrop (80). Weather clear and track fast was the word from Lexington, but high winds prevailed to harass the golfers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Leverett, Lowell, And Eliot Gain Crew Finals | 5/14/1947 | See Source »

...into it. This week the nation, with a 40-day coal supply on hand, had its miners' strike after all. How long would it last? There was no telling. Safety inspection of all the mines might take two months. There were a thousand quibbles with which John could harass the Government-and keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A New Way to Strike | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Georgia was getting more publicity than a two-headed calf-and seemed to suffer from the same ailments which harass such a rare beast. Each of Georgia's heads wanted to go in a different direction. Each mooed incessantly. Each tried to butt the other out of the feedbox. Meanwhile, the animal proper did not seem able to eat, walk or cough up its cud, but simply stood disconsolately, enduring violent disturbances of the fourth stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Double Trouble | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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