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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meter, Iowa, walked into Des Moines' radio station WHO, announced that he wanted to go on the air for Truman, plunked down $85 to pay for the time. In his broadcast, he explained: in 1932 he was broke and facing foreclosure. Today he owns 540 acres of land, 500 hogs, a restaurant, and twelve filling stations. It was the Democrats and their aid to farmers that did it, he declared. Why change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: Crossfire | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...pattern was the same across the land. Harry Truman's home state of Missouri elected RICHARD BOLLING, 32, a New Deal zealot who campaigned for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; his home district named LEONARD IRVING, 50, a labor leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Face of the Victor | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANOPLIES: Dilatory Domiciles | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Eliot had assembled his picture of the contemporary world in The Waste Land, which, like most of Eliot's earlier poetry, had the immediacy of a headline, the memorableness of a song that is easy to hum because it is reminiscent of other songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Waste Land was not mere poetic journalism. Eliot found the world in bits & pieces, reported it in snips & snatches of allusions to the Grail legend, to Frazer's Golden Bough, to Hindu philosophy. At the end, he says: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." The shoring was not shoveling; it was the orderly construction of a mosaic. His purpose was not merely to describe disorder and frustration, but to contrast it with the possibility of a return to order and fulfillment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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