Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fall, reporters for the Denver Post, the Phoenix Arizona Republic and other newspapers in Navajo territory found that many Navajos were faced with starvation this winter unless something were done for them. Writers for various U.S. magazines like Harper's found the same thing-as did TIME'S Beshoar when he again visited the reservation to confirm the facts for TIME'S Nov. 3 story...
...time last week, it looked as if Dave Beck had finally made it. As everybody expected, Uncle Dan made him the union's executive vice president-the crown-princely post which Tobin and Beck created at the last Teamsters' convention (TIME, Aug. 25). Teamster courtiers were sure that this was it; the boys were even trying to figure out who would get Dave's mahogany-paneled office in Seattle, where he rules a Teamster duchy of eleven western states...
...Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso-yi from his "pacification" command in Chahar...
...valleys which poorly support half the country's population. The towering Andes effectively bar the transportation of foodstuffs from the fertile eastern region. Because of the chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...
...reason for this imbalance, almost all these polled, from professors to teaching fellows, agreed that the University staff is too small to serve adequately the swollen, post-war student body...