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Word: pressingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Houston Harte, Texas newspaper publisher, happened to choose one of our artists to illustrate his selection of the best stories in the Old Testament. For some years he had been collecting the originals of the TIME portraits of Texans-who have appeared on our cover. When Oxford University Press agreed to publish the Old Testament stories, Publisher Harte wanted them illustrated in the new kind of journalistic portraiture that TIME and its cover artists had developed. Of our cover artists (the others are, of course, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chalia-pin), Rowe was the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Artist Rowe, Publisher Harte and the Oxford Press are now contemplating a book on the New Testament. Meanwhile, Guy Rowe is doing some TIME covers, and you can expect to see one of them soon-signed Giro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...predicted that the budget for 1951 would run substantially higher than that for 1950, and repeated his press-conference opinion that higher taxes were necessary. He lectured industry heatedly for its attitude toward collective bargaining: "If you gentlemen won't sit down with the people who work for you and work out your problems, there is something wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...last week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Peace, Brother! | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...press conference, Vishinsky explained why he considered Yugoslavia's candidacy part of a "sinister underhand design." Article 23 of the U.N. Charter, he pointed out, required that nonpermanent Security Council members be elected "with due regard" to "geographical distribution." According to a U.N. "gentlemen's agreement,"claimed Vishinsky, this article in practice bound the Assembly to accept the nominees chosen by each regional group; i.e., a caucus of Latin American countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Close Decision | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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