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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Democrat Walter George has been a low-tariff man since the null He still is-with some reservations. He will, he says, support the Eisenhower measure, but he adds: "It may be that I will vote for sortie clarifying amendments." What is George worried about? Says he quietly: "My textile people are very much disturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fifteen Under Pressure | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...battleships came by way of the latest designs of Clydeside and Newport News, Va. The Japanese bought Manhattan's disassembled Sixth Avenue Elevated as scrap iron (and returned it later with a bang). They also borrowed, from Britain's successful example of the 17th to null centuries, the notion that a poor island nation has a right and a destiny to build an empire. What they could not get by borrowing or adapting, they went after with a savagery that bloodied history with the rape of Nanking and the death march of Bataan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Nothing, vowed impetuous young Carol, would induce him to renounce Zizi. But Ferdinand thought he knew a way. The King had his courts declare his son's marriage null, banished Zizi, had the son she had borne declared illegitimate, and cut off Carol's allowance. Outflanked and outmaneuvered, Carol jot ted a note to Zizi protesting his eternal love for her and admitting the parentage of their son; then he dutifully married Princess Helen of Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: My Son Mircea | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

When Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway appeared before the House Armed Services Committee, a Democrat asked if the null cut in ground forces ordered by Commander in Chief Eisenhower by 1956 would affect the safety of the country. General Ridgway's answer: "I think it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: A Matter of Perspective | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...unless discussion was confined solely to Russia's proposal to turn Formosa over to the Reds, and only if Nationalist China was first booted out of the Security Council. Otherwise, "all decisions taken in the Security Council on questions concerning China would be illegal and null and void...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blunt No | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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