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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animals . . ." Later, at the Rosenbergs' funeral in New York, Bloch vented more bitterness: "Insanity, irrationality, barbarism and murder seem to be part of the feeling of those who rule us . . . I place the murder of the Rosenbergs at the door of President Eisenhower, Mr. Brownell and J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Demonstrators | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Prohibition was such an all-pervasive issue that it shut off discussion of problems that turned out to be far more important. Prohibition polarized Congress, dominated the 1928 election, absorbed the White House, obsessed the press and smothered discussion of other grave questions of the Coolidge-Hoover period. The yatter over Prohibition died with Repeal. In 1953, the responsible leaders of the U.S. will not get public discussion back on the most important issues until they extinguish the McCarthyism debate by an equivalent of Repeal. Since serious people can hardly believe that Communism influences the present Administration, much ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McCARTHYISM: MYTH & MENACE | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay hopes Congress will authorize construction of the two projects for 1954 to 1955, as a hedge against a business downturn. Total cost: $2.5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters through tunnels to the Pacific. Energy produced by the waters' swift drop to the sea will almost triple the output of the famed U.S. Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Metal Empire | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Harvard awarded 1884 degrees on June 21, 1928, with 659 going to seniors. And four men of '28 received the highest honor awarded to a Harvard graduate, a summa cum laude degree. They were: Edgar Malone Hoover, V. Samuel Seidel, Russell Thornley Sharpe, and Israel Solomon Stamm. The coming years would be hard, but the Class had Harvard diplomas, and that would help.Twenty-five years afterward members of the Class get together to discuss their reunion. WILLIAM SALTONSTALL, DON HURLEY, FRED WEED, and BOB GREGG were photographer at a pre-reunion meeting last December. Saltonstall and Weed are both headmasters...

Author: By Michael Halbersiam, | Title: Copey, Clothes, Church Were Issues; During '28's Momentous Last Year | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

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