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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A Charming Fellow." When round-faced Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Treasury Secretary, took the stand, more flat contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Basement in Chevy Chase | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

New Dignity. Last week there was no bloodshed. South Carolina's Negroes voted quietly. Their votes did not change the result-all the favorites, including blue-blooded, well-heeled U.S. Senator Burnet R. Maybank of Charleston, won handily. Whatever South Carolina thought last week, history might remember crusty, umbrageous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: The Man They Love to Hate | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Some 10,000 other lowans flocked to the trim Quaker town to honor its only famous son. Hoover dutifully examined the two-room frame cottage where he was born, nodded as the old wooden cradle was pointed out to him, took a drink from a gourd at the wooden pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Not a Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Returning to their seats in the Chamber, they attacked the government for railroading the reform bill through the Congress before the country had a chance to study it. "We are watching the destruction of Parliament," cried Radical Deputy Alfredo R. Vitolo. "Remember a whole generation was lost in order that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Rubber-Stamp Field Day | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

He made more than $2,000,000 and spent most of it. He once confessed: "I lost $35,000 on one horse race alone." Ban Johnson, late president of the American League once said with asperity but accuracy: "Ruth has the mind of a 15-year-old boy." The Babe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hello, Kid | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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