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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While most of the nation's politicos were still rubbing liniment into their campaign-sore muscles, Chicago's Republicans last week plunged feverishly ahead to the next event. All over the nation's second largest city billboards shouted: "Root for Mayor...
...Palestine story is most often told in the language of politics or professional philanthropy. Last week when the largest group of European Jews ever to sail in a single refugee ship tried to pierce the British cordon around Palestine, a TIME correspondent told the story in human terms. He cabled this report of what happens when men crazed by fear find obstacles in their...
Last week Harvard's omnivorous library (second largest in the U.S.) got ready to clear a place in its stacks for the 2,000 luridly titled, gaudily wrapped books, willed in 1942 to the university by George Reisner, who had been a Harvard professor for 37 years. The war had kept the collection in Egypt, where an officers' club gave the books a thorough thumbing...
Another 36,578 school kids in St. Paul, Minn., had it easier than the Denver stay-at-homes; they didn't even have to listen to the radio. About 1,000 organized schoolteachers (A.F.L.) had walked out in the largest teachers' strike in U.S. history. Among their demands: a boost in salary minimums from...
...victim of post-war tensions as forceful as those that have created a housing shortage and unleashed an inflationary spiral, undergraduate veterans are today burdened with a greater number of academic, financial, and family worries than any previous group in the history of the College. Both the largest bloc of harried commuters in memory and the widespread student element concerned almost exclusively with the task of getting good grades help to underscore Harvard's overall lack of social integration and its studied aloofness. General uneasiness is the logical result of the universal desire to tie up a college education speedily...