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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accurity reasons," Chief Randall did not disclose the nature of his precautionary measures, except to say that he'll use the same tactics which proved successful last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Horde Comes Today; Yard Cops Ready Defenses | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

From the pizza special at the old Venice right down through the last act at the Old Howard, Boston offers the weekend visitor a thousand divertisments most of which cannot be found in, say, Hanover...

Author: By "g." Ripzky-korastoff, | Title: Boston Beckons Visitors with Burlesque, Cuisines, Movies, Cabarets, and Football | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...layman can competently decide such a question. But we can say that we have been a little worried about the Smith Act, which was passed in 1940. We are particularly concerned about this clause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After the Trial | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

take the question of aid to Tito. There are a great many short-range, short-sighted arguments for giving aid to Yugoslavia--devilishly attractive arguments, the kind of arguments to which one can so easily say: "150 million Americans and the State Department can't be wrong." I believe they are wrong, wrong because they are thinking too precisely on the event, gazing rapturously at the free without noticing the nature of the forest...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...other hand, Point Four's protagonists state, the program need not entail domination of foreign peoples and would be a positive action against any advance of communism into these areas. It would show, they say, that nations can find means of taking care of their needs without giving up their freedoms, and would win many friends...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

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