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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems. So far, TLI has had to establish 24 basic subscription prices in local currencies and 60 different newsstand rates. In several countries yearly subscription prices must equal or exceed the total of 52 newsstand copies. In Norway, all subscriptions must be entered through agents; in Finland, through the post office. In New Zealand, no new subscriptions at all may be solicited. In China, because of currency fluctuations, newsstand prices are subject to change weekly...
...politics. Only the tragic situation of my country and my admiration for General de Gaulle persuaded me-a university professor-to accept the post of mayor of Marseille. But now I'm here and I'm here to stay; violence and threats will not change that...
...class. Among Laborites, sarcastic Tory-lasher Dalton won honors, if not complete confidence. During World War II he served first as Minister of Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally No. 2 post in the British Cabinet. Recently, as Sir Stafford Cripps towered into prominence as Britain's economic dictator, Dalton's own political stature shrank...
Government newspapers continued to attack the U.S. and its press, but spring fever obviously afflicted the editorial writers. La Epoca referred to "the New York newspaper, the Washington Post"; another sheet, with an equally fine disregard of the facts, damned the United Press, "whose figureheads called Roy, Scripp and Howard, also direct the New York Post, the Nation, and the New York Journal-American...
...absence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, dowager queen of the Met, the press found Mrs. George Washington ("Tiffany's front window") Kavanaugh almost as impressive and much more cooperative. She arrived in her Rolls-Royce, reported the Post, and left in her Cadillac, basking in a sunburst of flashbulbs. When photographers bawled at her to count her diamond bracelets (she had made wonderful copy last year by losing one), she sweetly obliged. Said class-conscious PM: "She had on a chinchilla cape not worth a penny more than...