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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that we are being educated for living, not in order to pass an exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Wipe all cabs off the streets," was the imperious order. "Not a wheel will roll," was the chesty prediction. Mighty John L. Lewis and the grabbag District 50 of the United Mine Workers had gone to the big city: they were going to take over New York City's 36,000 hackies and mechanics, and force union recognition from the taxi owners. They might even get more money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: More Skull than Brains | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Goings-on like this were an irritating challenge to Frank Hague's ideas of law & order. Two years ago, shrewd old (73) Boss Hague had confidently handed the mayor's office over to the man he had carefully trained for the job-his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers. But Eggers lacked his uncle's sure grip, and now needed the old man's help to get reelected. Boss Hague hurried home from "retirement" at Florida's race tracks. Last week he shouted at a Democratic rally: "I really wanted to rest . . . But I stated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Magic Box | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything we can-in order to buy imported machines?" he shouted. "Of course we will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Great Schism | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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