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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Truman last week signed the bill providing $400 million worth of aid to Greece and Turkey, the Truman Doctrine badly needed a full directive and fresh campaign maps. Just what was the Truman Doctrine, anyway? Did it mean that Uncle Sam had turned world fireman and would henceforth be riding here & there to three-alarm fires, trying to douse flames with dollars? If so, a lot of alarm bells were going to be ringing at once. Or was the U.S. aiming at something larger, more foresighted, and more likely to succeed? Instead of waiting for alarms, would it seize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: All the Trumps | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Three Men on a Horse, Sam. Levene, Shirley Booth, David Wayne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

When it was all over, the 10,000 customers had bought merchandise with a retail value of $80,000. By buying up inventories and leftovers, Barry's got it for $20,000. The store's owner, dapper, suntanned Sam Behrstock, 43, estimates that his yearly anniversary sale increases his volume of business the rest of the year by 40%; people remember the name, come back. Behrstock started his give-away sale ten years ago, feels it is cheap advertising. Says Behrstock: "The idea was just short of an inspiration. And it makes me feel good to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Penny Party | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Give Me the Gun." Reserving decision, Judge Martin ruled that they should be conditionally admitted into evidence. Sam Watt began to read. Willie Bishop's statement said that, at 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, he was in the Yellow Cab Co. office when he heard talk "about going over to Pickens . . . to get the Negro who had cut Mr. Brown." The drivers bought whiskey, drank a lot of it. Soon a caravan of cabs was on its way to Pickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Trial by Jury | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Sam Watt wasted little time with Ed Gilstrap. The main body of his evidence lay in the statements signed by 26 of the defendants. The statements named names, times, places. Without them, the state had a flimsy case. Sam Wratt started to read the statement of Willie Eugene Bishop. 27, one of the taxi drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Trial by Jury | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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