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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sam!" it begins. This is impossible; I don't talk like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...without Russia. Eastern European nations would be forced by Russia to stay out. If western and central Europe recovered more rapidly, eastern Europeans would not thank Russia for blocking their recovery. It would be years before Russia, recovering very slowly (see FOREIGN NEWS), could help her satellites. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam had found a way to use his checkbook where it would do the most good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: How to Use a Checkbook | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...must by law,* the House first picked up the challenge flung by Harry Truman. Its first item of business was the President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Majority Rules | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Manhattan Contractor Samuel R. Rosoff takes business wherever he can find it. Last week, "Subway Sam" returned from a beaming visit with ruthless Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Sam, who had his eye on a dam job in the Dominican state of Santiago, babbled chummily about the Benefactor. "He is sometimes called a dictator, but he's not," gushed Sam. "He's the most democratic man. Why, he had me to dinner with him at his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Rhapsody | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Sam's rhapsody is not the only notice the Dominican Republic has had recently in the U.S. A spate of glowing publicity pictures and handouts on Trujillo-land has been cluttering editorial desks. And as his U.S. legal representative (registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Section), Dictator Trujillo has hired onetime New Dealing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' Washington law firm (Cummings & Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Rhapsody | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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