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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Red China to U.S. and other Western papers. In Shanghai, his Alien Affairs Bureau ordered all correspondents, except those representing publications in countries which had recognized the new regime (i.e., Russia, its satellites and Yugoslavia), to stop filing cables. That left Hong Kong and Canton as the only major news centers in China still open to U.S. newsmen. Protested the U.S. State Department: "A crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crude Effort | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Major General Lewis B. Hershey predicted yesterday that a new draft call may be necessary to fill a 25,000 man defict in the armed services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25,000-Man Dearth Might Mean Draft, Hershey Says | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

This season got off to a bad start when plans for a trip to Stanford failed, through no fault of a committee composed of Borgatti and William J. Reinhardt '45, drum major, who worked all during the past summer and missed their goal by only a small margin...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Band Marks Three Musical Decades | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

About ten days ago, newspapers all over the country received a tear-stained press release from West Point which stated as follows: "This year's Cadet team is the most inexperienced over to take a trip to meet a major opponent (Michigan). No less than 20 sophomores are on the squad...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Mr. Blaik Fields A Capable Team | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

Western Europe suffered a major invasion this summer. As soon as American schools and colleges lot down their bars in June, students started swarming across the Atlantic by the thousands, looking for culture, education, and other things...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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