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...chair was vacant. President Truman had accepted Crowley's resignation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Although he had been much less sympathetic to the British case than the other U.S. negotiators, the British did not welcome Crowley's departure. They feared Crowley, the martyr, would make more trouble on Capitol Hill than Crowley, the negotiator, would ever have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Salesmen Wanted | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...world shrine, a gigantean granite Altar to Freedom, will rise 250 feet. . . . Each column of the vast colonnade . . . will commemorate a martyr of Lidice. Outside . . . fountains of crystal water will play. And under the floor of the great court will be many chapels, each dedicated to one of the religions of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Colossus | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...Norway's martyr," he thundered. The court smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Traitor's Day | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Grave on the Heath | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...doctors never did much about Catherine. Her complaints disappeared after she left high school and took a clerical job in which she was no longer pushed beyond her intellectual limits. But at story's end Mrs. Q, cherishing her martyr's role, had still done nothing about her ulcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Family Trouble | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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