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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They would define such an armed attack as an assault in the North Atlantic area on any territory, island possession, aircraft or vessel of any of the signers of the treaty. It would also include any attack on occupation forces in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Lessons Learned | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

March 26 begins the three hundred and twenty ninth annual New England battle of man against the longshot, which sees the sovereign state of Rhode Island and generally shifty-eyed guys in sharkskins as the only sure winners...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

Lloyd Staube Gilmour, Jr. '50 of Glen Head, Long Island, New York and Eliot House was named president of the Advocate in elections held last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gilmour Is Elected Advocate President | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

Nantucket has always been a pretty good place to find sea shells; up to 1945 professional scientists had counted 46 different species of Mollusca on the island and in its waters. That was about the time Dwight Taylor of Pasadena, now a bright-eyed, serious 17-year-old, began his collection. Dwight kept picking up sea shells until he had picked up 120 species of them, and enough mollusk lore to write a dozen-page scientific treatise: "A Malacological Survey of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Crop | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...discussion from the floor, it appeared that about half the churchmen were dead set against it. Cried Lutheran Pastor Ernest Edwin Ryden of Rock Island, Ill.: "[It] would divide the world into two armed camps. It would sign the death warrant of the United Nations!" Said the Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, famed pacifist pastor of the Evanston (Ill.) First Methodist Church: "It is aggressive to Russia-just as a similar alliance between Russia and Latin America would appear aggressive to the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churchmen & the Pact | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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