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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What he was trying to sell, he explained, was a middle way. Said Drummer Taft: "There is a middle way. We need not agree with those who want government to run their daily lives and look after the welfare of every citizen to the destruction of individual liberty and incentive and progress. On the other hand, we need not agree with those who refuse any interest on the part of the Federal Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Drummer | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Mother & Child. The power of the T.U.C. was seeping away. Said a leader of the Railwaymen's Union: "It's like a mother giving blood transfusions to save her child. To save our political offspring, we look like draining ourselves of every independent aim we ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the Ice Age | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...first time in a generation that Spaniards had got a close look at U.S. uniforms. Said one Madrid housewife, no doubt thinking of her daily struggle with water and electricity shortages: "They must have plenty of maids on board those ships. How else do they keep so clean and their hats so white?" Added a Madrid girl: "Just like in the movies but much nicer and not so noisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Fillip for Franco | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...with these fellows, anyhow?" asked Chief Warrant Officer Milburn ("Duke") Holmes of North Platte, Neb. "They won't accept our cigarettes and want us to smoke their smelly black tobacco. I haven't been able to pay for a glass of sherry in town-but they sure look as if they could use some extra money or some food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Fillip for Franco | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...summation, the Russian "has made a defiant gesture at class consciousness that fails absolutely. Actually he would be a great deal wiser to follow modern fashion in its entirety or invent a completely different form of dress. His humdrum neatness, coupled with naive mistakes, merely gives him a bourgeois look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clothes Make the Communist | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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