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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts which had been almost completely overlooked before the election now stood out like very sore thumbs: 1) labor voted in droves against the Taft-Hartley law and worked quietly but feverishly to sell the Democratic ticket to everyone in sight; 2) many farmers, who had been expected to vote Republican as usual, voted for Harry Truman instead. Between them they caught the Republicans in an implacable crossfire...
...team plans its usual full schedule this year, opening with McGill and Toronto here the first weekend in December, and running through matches with just about every Eastern collegiate team in sight before the traditional Eli windup...
...jigsaw of Russian intentions for Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues-the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...
Later she dropped from the sight of her socialite friends, called herself "Agnes Homberg," and spent months as a cashier, department-store detective and salesgirl. What she found out ran in Liberty magazine, then owned by her father and Cousin Bertie McCormick, as a series on how to get a job. She was married twice in her 20s, to James Simpson Jr., son of a onetime board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., and to Broker-Aviator Joseph W. Brooks, and divorced them...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Britain's Health Minister, was a bit embarrassed last week by the public's enthusiasm for government-financed doctoring. He announced: "It seems that an extraordinary proportion of the population has bad sight . . . The health service will fail unless the people use it intelligently, sparingly and prudently...