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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko, making his second appearance since his walkout, was particularly gay. The Soviet Purchasing Commission had just bought the $1 million Long Island estate pf deceased capitalist George Dupont Pratt for a reported $120,000 (see INTERNATIONAL) . He himself had received a box of flowers from an admirer who wrote "God bless you and Uncle Joe" and signed himself "Rock-ribbed Republican." The scenery was nice too. Gromyko even accepted a light from a reporter for the Russophobe Chicago Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Operation Whalen | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

About the time Communist Karl Marx finished writing Das Kapital, Capitalist Charles Pratt began selling "Pratt's Astral Oil." A high-grade lamp fuel, refined in Brooklyn from Pennsylvania petroleum, it became world-famed. Until Edison made his improvement, no one could read the Communist Manifesto, or anything else, under a mellower light. Onetime grocery clerk Pratt eventually joined up in Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CHANCELLERIES: The New Manor Lords | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Fletcher Pratt performed a public service when he exposed the Army and Navy's fraudulent press relations and censorship practices [TIME, Feb. 11] during World War II. . . . Actually, the Navy has no concept of public relations. One Annapolis arrogant thought [the term] meant kinfolk on charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Toward the end of the war, Pratt said, the Navy had begun to improve itself, but "the Army clung throughout to [Major] General [Alexander] Surles, retired, who . . . simply lacked the background to be anything more than one of the glorified lackeys the Army system produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Now It Can Be Told? | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...Pratt's bitter conclusion: "The official censors have pretty well succeeded in putting over the legend that the war was won without a single mistake, by a command consisting exclusively of geniuses, who now have asked to be rewarded by being placed in control of all scientific thought and utterance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Now It Can Be Told? | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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