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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With intervention in Argentina advocated at a forum here several weeks ago, and non-intervention in China propounded through mass meeting and petition this week, the State Department (assuming Harvard's influence on that body-politic) must be Byrning the candle at both ends to decide which fist to thrust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veritas et Trivia | 11/20/1945 | See Source »

The steel workers are thinking of strikes, too, a little more remotely. United States Steel has opened negotiations with C.I.O. President Phil Murray, who wants $2 a day more for his million steel workers. If his demands are refused, Murray, too, may petition the Labor Board to ask members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Threats | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

On its third page, Jester had run another editorial disparaging "Your New Emergency Council" as a student governing body unrepresentative of the students: "Easiest-method of joining the Emergency Council is to browbeat ten students to sign a petition for one of those quiet elections which slip by every term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom of College Newspaper at Stake In Columbia Spectator's Campus Battle | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

One spot where early Methodists used to gather to hear their first bishop was on the Cataloochee Trail in the Great Smoky mountains. Last week the historical-minded among southern Methodists, meeting at Lake Junaluska, N.C., sent a petition to President Truman, the Congress and the Department of the Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Asbury in the Great Smokies | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Tired of standing in line to buy food and clothing, British housewives last month sent an "end-the-queue" petition to the Government (TIME, July 23). Now they have evidence that standing in line with market baskets really makes them sick. The British Journal of Physical Medicine and Industrial Hygiene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Queueitis | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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