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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portuguese had felt boastful instead of wistful, there was material for self-congratulation about their Government and their way of life. Britain, their old ally, banker and protector, now owed them ?80,000.000. Spain, their old rival, was in the United Nations' doghouse, while Salazar, in spite of his anti-democratic sympathies, had pursued throughout World War II a serpentine policy whose final tack was enough in the Allies' direction to earn their tolerance, if not their approval. The Portuguese national budget, thanks to Salazar, was always balanced these days. (It had shown a deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: How Bad Is the Best? | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Burned Up. In lola, Kans., during a heated altercation with the umpire, Catcher Dave Dennis' chest protector burst into flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 1, 1946 | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...also foresaw the political repercussions it would set up. He spoke out in leadership against it, pulled 69 Senators (including all but 13 Democrats) with him. Arch-conservative Bob Taft emerged, to the embarrassment of the Administration and to the surprise of labor, as labor's stern protector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Unabashed Conservative | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

There was not another sound as the judge intoned (in Czech first and then in German) the eight-minute-long verdict of the people of Czechoslovakia against Karl Hermann Frank, the Sudeten German leader in the prewar Czech Parliament and later the Nazi "protector." Silently the people listened to the charges: treason, the murder of 300,000 Czechs, propagation of Naziism, and "co-responsibility" for the destruction of Lidice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Not a Person | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...March 4 issue is certainly a slur at the common man's help and protector...

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

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