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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attlee stuck to Labor's line that it was the old imperialism that had declined, fallen and been buried beneath the weight of colonial peoples' drive for freedom. Said Attlee: "We do not desire to retain within the Commonwealth and Empire any unwilling peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Decline & Fall? | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...partner Ralph M. Heintz peddled their war baby last spring to Manhattan engineer B. C. Milner Jr. and Byron C. Foy, onetime vice president of Chrysler Corp., they got 1) roughly $8 million in cash and stock, 2) five-year contracts at $40,000 a year, 3) promises to retain their employe program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Trouble at Jahco | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...ends Harlow has a wealth of candidates, with his three most regular starters, Wally Flynn, John Fiorentino, and Walt Coulson, all returning. Only Howie Houston is likely to retain his job at tackle, but he will have able assistance from big John Gorcynski, former Pitt star, who was here this year but ineligible under the transfer rules. At the guards it will be Emil Drvaric, Nick Rodis, Jim Feinberg, and Bob Drennan battling it out again, while Chuck Glynn is slated for the center slot unless Dewey, who will almost certainly not be at tackle next year in any case...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

Weaknesses among older members of the Faculty and the course catalogue are also in part a result of the appointment system by which Harvard has found itself unable to retain its bright young men. The same discrepancies, however, are not germane to all Departments. Subsequent editorials will examine various Departments in an attempt to discover their individual weaknesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State of the College | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

...whereas landslide Republican gains throughout New York, New Jersey and New England are based as much on the fact that people guess that the Democrats are this year's "outs," as on a clear analysis of partisanship. Lehman of New York and McGrath of Rhode Island are favored to retain their hold. The story is much the same in the congressional jousts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 11/5/1946 | See Source »

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