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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amid the cynical, the corrupt and the strident, strive to make better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Thursday in November | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Baptist Harry Truman, who is justly proud of his Bible knowledge, had a little confession to make. Reaching into his memory for a quotation from Daniel last week, he had come out with: "The laws of the Medes and Persians, they are not altered." What he should have said, he explained apologetically at his press conference next day, was "which altereth not." But however his memory had served him, no one could mistake the meaning of the President's welcoming toast to his guest, the Shahinshah of Iran, first Oriental monarch to make a state visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Truman & the Shahinshah | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...warning and accuracy. Then like a giant Bendix washer, the brain will whirl into action, stirring, scrambling, sorting, poking, prodding and reassembling the figures until the answer pops out next year, all set to be neatly starched and ironed. The only thing the machine won't do is make a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trial by Bendix | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Cross declared that he would prove that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Contest of Verities | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Joseph P. Ponte '52 will make his debut as a concert pianist at 3 p.m. today when he performs at Jordan Hall in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ponte Makes Debut | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

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