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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Vinson: "The interests of orderly government demand that respect and compliance be given to orders issued by courts. . . . [Lewis' defiance] was an attempt to repudiate and override the instrument of lawful government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: The Overriding Loyalty | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...pure and sexless," I step forward boldly to defend the thousands of folk dancers both men & women in the U.S. Lusty, earthy, folk dancing is as "pure" an expression of the people's simple joys as the "pure" tone Mr. Kirkpatrick clanks out of his antiquated instrument. ... If anything can be charged with the character of sexlessness, it is certainly the harpsichord, whose voice is hard and chill, and rather exemplifies suppressed desires. .. . PAUL ERFER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...second said: "EAM" (National Liberation Front, the leftist anti-Hitler organization which became an instrument of Communist terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Robert buckled down to designing a special merchant-ship radar. It must, he decided, be nearsighted as well as farsighted. It must be an all-weather, rugged, comparatively cheap instrument, simple enough for any competent officer to operate without a lot of special knowledge and training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Resurgent Boffin | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...disturbing display of political opportunism threaten the very development and management of atomic power in this country. Moreover, the rapidly-growing tendency to impugn a man's qualifications for a position, simply because he holds opinions either to the political left or right of the accuser, is an instrument as dangerous in itself as the resultant loss of Lilienthal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Danger--Politics Ahead! | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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