Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FRANK L. GODFREY...
...Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, W. L. Mackenzie King. Under his firm guidance Canada has risen to take her place among the great nations of the world...
...L. Mencken, cackling, venerable Sage of Baltimore, made quick response when he read a complaint that no local museum had a painting by Thomas Hart Benton. He himself had one, said Mencken, "in my cellar at this minute, gathering dust"-and he offered it to "any gallery that wants it, entirely free of all cost or expense." The Baltimore Museum of Art got the painting (an abstraction done in Benton's "earlier and more foolish days"), and Mencken asked as his reward an exemption on his income...
...lords of the British press, like everyone else in Britain, are on austerity rations. Last week, after a two-month trip to England to see how its restricted press is faring, TIME'S Press Editor Richard L. Williams reported...
...thought there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their minds after reading Allen Welsh Dulles' Germany's Underground and To the Bitter End, a history of the German plots against Hitler, by Hans Gisevius, one of the plotters. In End of a Berlin Diary, William L. Shirer warned that the Germans hoped to get even for defeat when the U.S. and Russia squared off. Unlike his first Diary, Shirer's latest was stuffed with news gone stale...