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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m sincerely hoping that none but the Mennonites waste sympathy on a man of such caliber as Larry Gara. In refusing to register during World War II he was but definitely a lawbreaker . . . Let him continue being a martyr and cheerfully spend most of his life as a do-nothing in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

CATHARINE M. BOYD Devon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Hotel. They were there to elect a new national chairman, hand-picked by Harry Truman: smooth, 46-year-old William M. Boyle Jr., a veteran Kansas City politico. And at Boyle's insistence, they were there to expel some fifth columnists from the Party of the People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Purges & Picnics | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Robinson charges $126,000 for a postcard campaign, $195,000 for one by letter, gathers signatures impartially for any side. Says he: "People think I'm doubling, but I'm not. Hell, 1 wouldn't work for both sides at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Slow Burn. In Westerly, R.I., Mrs. Carrie M. Crandall wrote to the city clerk of Worcester, Mass, with a complaint: "About 1889 or 1890 I fell into an open coal chute in front of the Hotel Pleasant...and I think the city should pay me something for my injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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