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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcome. The show on Pennsylvania Avenue began at 2 minutes to 5. The Secretary of State's glittering limousine (U.S. Government license 120) slid to a stop at the Blair House canopy. The Negro chauffeur got out, raced the Blair House doorman for the rear-door handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Over the Teacups | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...police and plainclothesmen in the building. At a noisy, protest meeting, 3,000 Germans decided on a walkout unless their men were freed and the cops removed. Jumping on a chair, one of the works councilors shouted: "Freedom is not won by words but by actions. Let's show these so-called revolutionaries just how revolutionary we can be." The Reds, however, refused to back down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Sunshine | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...heroine," said one of the mourners. "Yesterday when government troops marched here they could find no man to show them where the Communists were posted. Old Woman Chang led them across fields and pointed out the trenches. The Communists opened fire; a bullet struck her in the belly. She fell on this spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eighteen Levels Down | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Batlle Berres, a woman whose chief interests are her three children and her garden, had made one of her rare public appearances in an official visit to an elementary school in Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Information Please | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...freshmen supplied the mixer and the varsity added the punch in last night's swimming bill against MIT at the Blackhouse. The whole show went down like a well mixed tall drink when Hal Flen's outfit stirred up a sweet 69 to 16 victory after the '51 squad had taken the opener...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Swimmers Trim MIT 59-16, Lose One Race | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

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