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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people want constructive action coupled with campaign promises. In the personality and record of Hubert H. Humphrey the people of Minnesota saw the dynamo of action needed for the fulfilling of their dream-the human-welfare state . . . They wanted a clean-up on the housing mess, the health problem, the tax situation, the labor snarl and half a dozen other national stumbling blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

That's how I saw it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Socialist Romanticism | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Porter designed a galleggiante-an ornate danceboat seating 150-for the leading Venetian hotel. This pleasure dome plied the canals regularly, with French chef, wine cellar, Negro jazz band and $10 cover charge. As a small boy, Cole had fallen in love with Venice when he saw a backdrop painting of the Grand Canal in the Peru (Ind.) theater; he still thinks it is the best place to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

March 24, 1945 (on a camp at Bergen-Belsen). "It was a common thing to get hold of a corpse to sleep on, so as to keep dry. Nor was cannibalism a rare phenomenon. One Norwegian saw a prisoner cut the liver out of a dead body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Alive | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

March 31, 1945. "For many it was too much altogether . . . When they saw the white Red Cross busses [which they took to mean liberation] they collapsed and died-literally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Alive | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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