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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House, Harry Truman probably did not need any polls to show him that times were tough. He politicked like mad. Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey dropped by, and so did ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles, who offered all his help. National Chairman Bob Hannegan talked strategy, then hopped off for Los Angeles to twang a campaign theme. One Hannegan chord: the G.O.P. is "holding the picket line in a strike of big business against the consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: That Date in November | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

This mess and many another such straw indicated the deep divisions within France. Nevertheless, Premier-President Georges Bidault, burning mad at De Gaulle's opposition, prepared to fight the rift in his own party by stumping the country for the new constitution. If it lost, Bidault's rising star would probably decline, and Charles de Gaulle would again be the dominant figure in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Skin Deep | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Exception. In Chicago, Negroes held an anti-lynching rally, got mad at a heckler, threatened to lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...lucky emigré: Lena the Hyena (pearl of Lower Slobbovian womanhood, who is so ugly that she is kept behind an iron curtain of seclusion lest men, seeing her, go mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOWER SLOBBOVIA: Escape from Utopia | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Said he: "The solution is, refuse to get mad, refuse to quit, and hope that the people on the other [Presbyterian] side will do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hope Deferred | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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