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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prohibition parties. It remained valid during the rise & fall of the Populist, Progressive, Bull Moose and Socialist-Labor movements. Their adherents were loyal to the U.S. first, to their party second-and never to a foreign government. Not until 1939 was the rule amended, to bar those who seek to overthrow the U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The First Loyalty | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion. . . . We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose on them totalitarian regimes. . . . Great responsibilities have been placed upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The World & Democracy | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...trade committee would seek relief for the religious, fraternal and labor press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paper Chase | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Problems of administration make some of these restrictions necessary. Interhouse privileges at lunch, for instance, while theoretically desirable, would result in mass descents on Adams House on cold, rainy days, and even in the warmth of spring lazy science majors would seek out the closest dining hall. Major migrations of this sort, which depend on the vagaries of the weather and of student programs, would make an administrative tangle out of all proportion to their actual value to students. But interhouse between the Union and the House is another matter. With veterans making up a large proportion of Yardlings, friendship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open, Houses | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

...with the newer rates CABoss Landis intends to keep a closer watch on airline financing. Many lines have stubbornly chosen to go into debt to buy new equipment rather than issue stock and thus weaken the holdings of those now in control. From now on, CAB intends to seek more authority over line financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Hardheaded Healer | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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