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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trygve Lie performed a solemn duty. He unveiled a commemorative plaque (the first in U.N.'s history) for U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, shot down just a year ago by assassins in Jerusalem. The best that could be said on this occasion was that, in the past year, neither the violence in Palestine nor any other of the world's conflicts had flared into a general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Painful Perennials | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Neither workers nor administrators seem to realize, Rakosi complained, "that labor discipline is a political weapon of prime importance." He revealed that wages had increased by 20%, despite a decrease in industrial productivity, a clear violation of "the supreme law of socialist work, that living standards can only be improved by increased productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Iron Hands | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Important Point. Lean, tired-eyed Festival Manager Rudolf Bing could hardly deny the charges. But neither did he see any reason to plead guilty. Said he with a sigh: "You don't come to Edinburgh to hear Brahms's Second Symphony. If you're the type who goes to a festival, you've heard it. But you do come to hear the Royal Philharmonic under Beecham, or the Berlin, or the Vienna Philharmonic, or the Concertgebouw. It seems to me that what is played here is less important than who plays it. Whatever he thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What's a Festival For? | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...announced that the President had neither known nor approved of any "assistance" he might have given business firms. He denied ever helping Five-Percenter James V. Hunt, or even having business connections with his good friend, Fixer John Maragon, who had made a good thing out of his White House connections (TIME, Sept. 5). He brushed the famed seven deep freezers off as gifts which were "an expression of friendship and nothing more . . ." He swore that he had never taken a dishonest nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Friendship & Nothing More | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...quarter of a century later, Hideyoshi's successor as shogun, arch-isolationist Tokugawa Ieyasu, built a stronghold at Nagoya, 100 miles northeast of Osaka, Ieyasu wanted neither conquest nor foreign trade; he clamped the lid on Japan, and his family kept it there for 300 years. Like Osaka, Nagoya grew up in the image of its maker. Nagoyans put classical poems, flower arrangements and the complex subtleties of the Japanese tea ceremony ahead of commerce and industry; they dislike to hustle; there is still a feeling that trade is somewhat vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Two Cities | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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