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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia sped an Air Force plane to pick up State Governor Octávio Mangabeira, the U.D.N. leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Man of the Hour | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...formidably bearded Swiss musician first came to the U.S. as an orchestra leader, accompanying a dancer. When her tour folded, he wound up in Manhattan, where he used to impress friends by accompanying himself on the piano while he sang passionate cello passages from his own Schelomo. That was 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tribute in Absentia | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Dissolution of Parliament and new elections to secure a genuinely contrist "government of arbitration" spell the only way out of Greece's state of disunion, according to Emmanuel Tsouderos, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party and prime minister during the crucial Cretan stand in 1941. Tsouderos visited the University yesterday as a guest of Raphael Domes '19, professor of Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Anti-Royalist Leader Decries Rightist Grip on Sophoulis Regime | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

Coach Harlow, injured captain Vince Moravec, last year's captain Cleo O'Donnell, and acting captain Jim Feinberg are scheduled to address the crowd. Arrangement for an additional outside speaker are being made by cheer leader Gerald S. Spear '48, who is conducting the rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Weekend Fuse Ignites Thursday With Dillon Rally | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

...seem a modest achievement. Miss Stein starts the fun & games by supposing that Grant had become a religious leader, Wright a painter, James a general and Washington a novelist. In defense of her little game, she apparently fetches some reasons from afar: Grant's first name was Hiram (an Old Testament name) but he dropped it in favor of his middle name, Ulysses (a soldier's); Wright, like Miss Stein's favorite modern painter, Picasso, invented contraptions that gave people a new sense of being alive; James planned his novels as a good general plans an operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for the Tired | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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