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...blacklist, but Li took a less personal view of China's crisis; he was still willing to negotiate. Other Kuomintang leaders stood with Chiang. The newspaper Ta Rang Pao railed against "peace politicians who let themselves be mouthpieces for Stalin" and "peace rumors that sugar-coat a poison designed to crush the Chinese government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sugar-Coated Poison | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

When his $50 million baby discovers who he really is, she decides to dose him with his own poison-lurid publicity-and issues a fake announcement of their marriage. His paper fires him, of course, and for the next few reels, editors, lawyers and even the handsome young couple energetically worry the question: Did the nice newsman really marry the naughty rich girl, or didn't he? As all the din begins to fade, the answer seems to be: he didn't, but he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Eugene Griffin, who wrote in series of articles in the Chicago Tribune last year accusing Harvard of being corrupted by "Red Poison," checked in at the Hotel Statler Friday night, reportedly to do another series on "foreign" influences at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribune Reporter Returns to Hunt University 'Reds' | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Toughest of all were the backwoods villages, where farmers suspected a gringo plot to poison their animals, and priests preached against interference with God's will. There the Apostles used any methods they could think of, giving more movie shows, bringing friends of local farmers from other villages to argue for them. In the village of Tula, Jalisco, when all else failed, the Apostles hauled in a load of pulque and set up free drinks. Next morning the villagers awoke with roaring hangovers, found that all their cattle had been vaccinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Apostles at Work | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...complete removal, by sandblasting, of every inch of paint, plus the planing off of a half-centimeter of all deck plank. And, to clinch matters, the Radiological Monitors found that even when radioactivity was not registering on ordinary instruments there might still be "free plutonium" present, the "most insidious poison known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Spots | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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