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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, Ike promptly denied all. "Frankly," he said, "I have no political angle, and I'm not going to let any sort of talk by others make me a candidate." Asked if he had seen the Key West stories, he replied: "I wouldn't comment on anything [Harry Truman] said, even if he said it." Then, voicing the "highest respect and admiration" for the President, he added: "Back in 1948, he never wavered in believing that I meant what I said in declining to be a candidate, and I don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Friendly Exchange | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

President-elect Elmer Henderson sounded the war cry: "Let's face our battle of Armageddon . . . No other profession, in . . . this country, has been brought under such violent attack by those ambitious for political power over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Expensive Operation | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...words of St. Paul (Galatians 6:17), "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus," have led to some speculation that he may have carried the stigmata (Latin for marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Stigmatist | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...courts of a former naval air station in Oklahoma City. Bought and paid for by the U.S. taxpayer (through the Commodity Credit Corp.), the cottonseed seemed destined for the same fate as the mountains of potatoes, eggs and other commodities which the Government in the past has bought and let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Let 'em Eat Cake | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Harvard students backed the plan in weekend petitions, as almost 400 undergraduates promised to stay in Cambridge during Christmas if the University would let girls share their showers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Girls Jump at Shower-Sharing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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