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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Acting President Li Tsung-jen sent Dr. Kan Chieh-hou, his U.S.-educated (Wisconsin & Harvard) political adviser, off to Shanghai last week, Li hopefully quoted a proverb: "Absolute sincerity will open metal and stone." It was Dr. Kan's job to pick a delegation to plead with the Reds for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Life Is Difficult | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...shops besides their present carpentry shop. When their charges have attained the ability and maturity to fend for themselves, the directors will help them through the red tape needed to get working papers and a job. Both churches have ambitious plans for Adelheide. By May the Protestants expect to open a hospital that will accommodate 90 paralyzed children; the Catholics are planning to turn the Luftwaffe airport behind the village into a truck farm. The total population will eventually be 2,800, divided equally between the churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Village of Our Own | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...miss with them." And he had learned to put on a show to take a bobby-soxer's heart. In the old days he sang with his eyes closed ("I couldn't bear to look at the audience"). Now he sings with his eyes wide open and swiveling in their sockets. He also moves about, shuffling, jumping, pedaling, ending with what he calls his "cheerleader finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Feels Good That Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...gothic structure on the corner of Kirkland and Divinity avenues reopened to the public shortly after the Army moved out three and a half years ago but not until last December was Kuhn able to open all the rooms in the building and even then his refurbishing job was not finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Germanic Museum Declares End of Post-War Conversion | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...things helped him. First, his never-unified opposition split wide open, with various factions supporting one or another of the plans. Second-and this made the opposition split fatal-the law states that only one plan may be voted on in any single election; that plan getting the required petition signatures first gets on the ballot to the exclusion of all others. Curley made the most of the situation. The battle shaped up between backers of Plan A, supporters of Plan E and a smaller group behind Plan D. The boss, although stating emphatically that he wanted no change, finally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battle of the Plans | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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