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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed. Doctors had discovered that Byrnes had a heart murmur aggravated by incessant overwork. The President's mind had been made up long ago: if he ever needed a new Secretary of State, he would call on General George Marshall. He radioed Marshall in Nanking, and made his offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Relay Point | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...news reached General Marshall as his C-54 snored steadily eastward through the skies over Okinawa, bringing him home from China. At eleven o'clock at night, Shanghai time, the plane's pilot, Colonel H. C. Munson, came back to tell him of a news broadcast and offer congratulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Relay Point | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Egyptian man may offer an Egyptian girl his arm, but can she take it and remain respectable? Among the Egyptian judiciary this question caused as much head-scratching last week as a recondite Koran text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Triumph of Civilization | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...wavering, death-sick world, America can offer a path of hope, a road to sanity, a way to safety, prosperity and world peace. . . . Harassed as we are by domestic strife, some may be tempted to retort, 'physician, heal thyself.' It is true that the American way has at times failed lamentably, but when it has failed it has been because the moral and spiritual factors have been rejected or ignored. Denying God, rejecting God's way, pursuing power and abusing it ... these are the dangers threatening the peace of America, the peace of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report From The World: Report From The World, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...priests said it was all right. So we set out to provide leadership. We encouraged the workers to join the union. . . . Because we provided leadership in the Back of the Yards, there is little Communism there today. ... As long as we can take care of our people and offer them a good life, there'll be no Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Abbot from the Yards | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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