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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...socialist idea is obviously the prime point in all this, and you emphasize it. It seems you under-emphasize the prodigious waste and inefficiency of the socialist idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Observation Was ..." No point was too small for the defense to seize upon. Two Marxist books, entered as evidence, were shown to the jurors, and they thumbed through them. Up popped bald, stooped Lawyer Abraham Isserman to protest: "I would like to have the record note that the examination of the exhibits occupied a period of time of about ten minutes and in that time the jurors did not read the documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Doggonedest Trial | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions and size of the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tough Talk | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Prejudicial . . . misconduct," shouted Gladstein, Lawyer Harry Sacher demanded a mistrial. Eugene Dennis, top Red leader, acting as his own attorney, rose breathlessly to point out that "we do not take this trial lightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Doggonedest Trial | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Cover) In the center of Mexico City squats a vast, magnificently ugly edifice of white marble, imported block by block from Italy. Officially it is the Palace of Fine Arts, but mexicanos call it the elefante blanco and point out, with mingled pride and disdain, that the ponderous thing is slowly sinking, of its own weight, into the city's soft subsoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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