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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through an unnamed correspondent of their official news agency in Chungking, the Chinese Communists gave their answer to the Generalissimo's plea for unity and promise of constitutional government (TIME, March 12). They declared: the all-party national assembly, which Chiang proposed, would be a "congress of slaves" unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Barrage | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

When a popular song has been dead for 15 years, its chances of revival are none too bright. But last week the 1930 tune, I'm Confessin' (That I Love You), stood high on the hit-tune lists, had just rolled up 350,000 new sheet music sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pluggers | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Relatively young, the profession dates back to the early 1900s, when song promoters sang and whistled their merchandise in New York's East Side tingel tangels (German beer halls) and tried to make themselves agreeable to burlesque headliners, variety artists and minstrels. Today 540 of them throughout the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pluggers | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Jackson's Presidency was "a series of battles in which he exhibited the same qualities that had distinguished his military career. In his own view he fought for the people and the Union as before he had battled for the Republic." He left a profound impress on the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Men on Horseback | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Ray Kallaus has been busy building up a collection of class snaps to preserve memories in the year book due in April or May, according to editors Moody and Worsley. It all depends on the staff, they say. The staff has a few brilliants in such men as Ches Baker...

Author: By "jack" Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 2/16/1945 | See Source »

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