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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Veep's Prerogative. Democrats had their answers ready. The peril-point procedure, they said, would induce caution verging on stagnation in the Tariff Commission; how could anybody safely predict a peril point for years in the future? It was also an open invitation to every industry to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Peril Passed | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

U.S. Navy spokesmen said the visit was "informal but official." The less friendly U.S. embassy underlined the "nonpolitical" significance of the visit by keeping away from all ceremonies on the Navy's behalf, and limiting official recognition of Admiral Conolly's presence to a private cocktail party in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Fillip for Franco | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Up Two & Opposite. To the layman, the wonder of modern T-football is that anybody but a mathematical quiz-kid can comprehend it, much less play it. At Notre Dame, even the basic quick-opener, known as "43" or "the bread & butter play" (see chart), has a maze of variations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: T-Secrets | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

"Not for Sam." As a youth in Wales, Sam Higginbottom was sure that the last thing he wanted to be was a missionary ("Not for Sam Higginbottom-no, sir"). All the same, he read his Bible carefully and decided that "the attitude of Jesus was strict and uncompromising. He would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Padre Sahib | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Hero Erik Gorin quits his instructorship at a Midwestern college in disgust at university politics. He takes a better paying job with a machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with the Physicists | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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