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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Expedite." R. K. Mellon and his associates formed the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, a sort of umbrella organization to throw over the civic enterprises already in existence, and added new plans of their own. Then they enlisted David Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Democratic mayor, as a bridge to the Democrats and to Pittsburgh labor. "We expedite. We get things into motion," was R. K. Mellon's description of the Allegheny Conference...
...What we are hearing (if we hear anything at all) is something of far less dramatic import-a sort of airborne Agony Column, with a dash of the Court Circular thrown in: 'Will M'Bongo please return from the yampatch. All is forgiven . . .' 'Is there a witch doctor in the kraal?' 'The chief's brother-in-law, a person of the noblest character, will arrive tomorrow...
...Wonderful Team." From 11:17 that sunny morning, the supreme law in Western Germany became the Occupation Statute, a sort of interim peace treaty drafted by the Allies last spring (TIME, April 18). It gives the Germans wide scope for self-government, although the high commissioners still keep important powers over foreign affairs, demilitarization, decartelization and D.P.s...
...factors behind the current revolutions is the growth of nationalist spirit in the Far Eastern countries, Thomas pointed out. He feels that this nationalism which is at present aimed at ousting local and foreign oppressors, will give rise to the same sort of national enmities that at present divide Western Europe...
...could tell, the weather did not turn suddenly worse in the third inning; it just got slowly darker until by 5:15 you could see virtually nothing. Once the game started, the umpires also had a sort of moral obligation to continue play. They felt five innings could be played, and they were right...