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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most violations were in the Eliot-Kirkland area which allowed regular route police to handle ticket distribution, but Randall said that plain-clothes men were often called to watch the offending cars during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Police Ticket Parkers | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

Finally, the Student Government has been wise in announcing a clear-cut policy on tallying the votes, making it plain that only the activities fee issue will be forced to reach the total majority requirement for a final decision. The Student Government has provided lucid directions; the simplest measure of compliance by the Radcliffe student body will settle three troublesome questions this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Unraveled | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

Ever since U.N. voted partition, Arabs have been tightening their grip on the lifeline of Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews-the road to Tel Aviv, which twists from the city through the rocky Judean hills to the coastal plain. The city's Jewish population, which used to buy 80 to 90% of its food from neighboring Arabs, now depends on food convoys from the Jewish settlements along the coast. One strongpoint on that road is the village of Kastel, a cluster of dirty stone huts, one big house and a mosque. Jewish Haganah fighters, after seizing it, held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: War for the Jerusalem Road | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...addition, the two Republicans will outline the convention strategy and explain plain Stassen's personal views and platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stassen Backers Present Politicos At Initial Meeting | 4/16/1948 | See Source »

...World War II forced on the U.S. or did we ask for it? To Historian Charles A. Beard, the answer already seems plain: President Roosevelt worked for it and got it, all the time pretending that his objectives were peace and defense. Sounding more like a prosecuting attorney than the historian he is, Dr. Beard makes President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War a study in dissimulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Side Door to War? | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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