Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute attempt to unravel the aid-to-China knot, the Senate Appropriations Committee last week summoned the man best qualified to present some firsthand facts. He was Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his China mission had been locked up in State Department files ever since his return 14 weeks ago (TIME, Sept...
Soon, Ed will return to his 1,800-acre cotton and wheat farm near Florence, Ala., where he was born. "I shore'n hell love that red soil," said Ed. "I'm too old to handle a team of mules the way I used to. But I been fixin' up the little old house, and I guess I'll just go there and kind of take it easy...
There he summoned the rulers of some two dozen eastern states who had so far not joined India. All but one (the tribesman ruler of Ranpur) are Hindus; their states are peopled largely by the aborigines. Patel ordered the princes to surrender all their powers. In return they could keep their titles, personal property, and get a tax-free pension (7½ to 15% of their states' incomes). More than a dozen, in a midnight ceremony, signed Patel's terms. Next morning, Patel got on a train for Nagpur, capital of the Central Provinces. But Patel...
...week, Manhattan gallerygoers saw a series of 14 war paintings by Lawrence which were by far his best work yet. During the war he had been a petty officer in the Coast Guard aboard a troop transport, had used anything and everything he had seen as his subject: departure, return, alerts, men in bunks, cooks cooking ("The cooks might not like my paintings, but they appreciated that I was painting a cook"). The pictures he exhibited last week were patterned with the crude simplicity of a poster; his people angular, always distorted; his colors somber, often murky. But the moods...
...heir (his older brother Don, once renounced all claims to kingship in the event of Anthony's success), campaigned for the throne with dignity but persistence, addressed some 2,000 outdoor meetings. At various times he sent a notice to King George V to quit, plumped for the return of the American colonies to Britain, and tried to build up the royal exchequer by selling "pound notes"-redeemable after the restoration-for a penny each...