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...man army of ex-guerrillas, the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, bristles with arms and defiance to the Roxas regime. They make their own laws and fight the Philippine Military Police. Their leader, boyish, 33-year-old Luis Taruc, bossed them when they were guerrillas. Now he bosses a seven-man anti-Roxas bloc in the House of Representatives and bides his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Destiny's Child | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Polish President Boleslaw Bierut led his seven-man delegation (including no representative of Stanislaw Mikolajczk's Peasant Party) from their plane in Moscow, stepped to a microphone to say, "Long live the indestructible friendship of the Polish and Soviet peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Bristling | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

This week, in an ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard, Captain Charles Butler McVay III tensely fingered his class ring as he was arraigned before a seven-man court on two charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Captain Stands Accused | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Betancourt and his seven-man junta promised to step down when a new President is chosen by popular vote next spring. Meantime they were busy with plans to turn the income from Venezuela's fabulous oil wealth to the people's account through low-cost housing and better social security, and to weed out the grafters from previous regimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Approval | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Moonlit Mackerel. When Franklin Roosevelt appointed Fly to the FCC chairmanship in 1939, FCC was a seven-man tangle of bickering members. Its job was to regulate radio, telegraph and telephone communications, but it was not having much success. Radio, as Fly saw it, was a newly rich business which had little idea of its public responsibility. It was, he decided, a "duopoly" dominated by two national networks (NBC and CBS), and Fly set out to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battler's Exit | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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