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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's ex-mayor, Ed Kelly, still one of the country's shrewdest political observers, dropped into the White House last week with a few Midwestern Democratic committeemen for an informal chat. On his way out, Ed Kelly made a little prediction about the man he had just seen: "Unless he gets hit by a freight train, he's going to be around for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prediction | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

General Chang had often stood up for Generalissimo Chiang. In 1931, as mayor of Shanghai, Chang arrested militant student leaders on orders from Chiang. Five thousand fellow students thereupon invaded the municipal offices, captured Chang, and made him stand up (literally) for a day and a night, listening to speeches denouncing him and Chiang Kaishek. Released, Chang left the municipal building in an ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hao Hao! | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...hospital staff members, 1,000 guests in the city's flophouse. Some 2,500 patients who had been discharged from a city hospital during LeBar's stay there were called back for vaccination. Thousands of New Yorkers queued up at vaccination centers. At week's end, Mayor William O'Dwyer decided to "pour in every available piece of machinery and manpower to insure that every person in the city is vaccinated." He summoned the city's 175,000 wartime air-raid wardens to ring doorbells, set up free vaccination centers in police stations, health centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bus Ride to Manhattan | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...plotters certainly had enough rank to excite an OSS agent: the ringleaders were Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime German Chief of Staff, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, onetime mayor of Leipzig. Among the men indirectly involved were Field Marshal von Kluge, the Western Front army chief, and Field Marshal Rommel. (Says Dulles: Beck, Kluge and Rommel subsequently died violent deaths; the ex-mayor was executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plot That Failed | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Mayor J. C. Trahan, who wears a purple heart for buzz bomb wounds received in Belgium, said "no buzz bomb could ever compare with what happened here today. It is such a terrific tragedy that the people have not been able to realize what happened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texas Blast Kills Estimated 1200 As Nitrate Ship Explodes in Fire; No Phone Strike Compromise Seen | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

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