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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed a bill for payment of $2,079 to a mink rancher near Roy, Wash., because low-flying military aircraft from Gray Field so upset mother minks that they destroyed their young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Apr. 26, 1948, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...sport just runs in the family, he explains. "Mother, brother, and father, all play the game, but just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rickenbacker Once Topped Jug McSpaden | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

...King Michael of Rumania and his mother, Queen Helen, flew to London, after a month in the U.S., said they were not sure where they were going next. Michael on Americans: "You kind of see freedom coming out all over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Nazis moved into their home, banded their arms with the yellow Star of David, sent Ervin's father to the Russian front as a gravedigger for the army. For months, Ervin and his mother lived in a dingy, heatless flat, hidden out by the music loving Swedish Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Play | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Something Should Happen." His father was a Congregational minister in upstate New York, his mother was a friend of Mark Twain (she wrote his funeral elegy) and one of the first women ordained in the Congregational Church. A forceful and free-thinking person (she once sincerely assured her congregation "that if they could find a spiritual up lift elsewhere, there was no reason for coming to church"), Mrs. Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enormous Trifle | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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