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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot see why you speak of "Major Robert E. Lee" in the above reference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Communists & Cough Drops. At 3:10 p.m. Florida's glib, long-nosed Claude Pepper began to speak. Between interruptions, he droned on until 6:50 p.m. Idaho's Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Majority Rules | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Employers will be able to speak freely to their employees on labor policies, demand elections if they think the union no longer represents the majority of their workers. Unions will be required to act responsibly, will be held more closely to their contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The New Law | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Congressman Malcolm Baldridge, was worried. Rain (always a possibility in London) would absolutely ruin her navy blue straw with velvet ribbons and the grey silk print she had bought in Paris. Then, too, there was the devastating possibility that a member of the Royal Family might speak to her. "I just hope to goodness," said Tish, "that I haven't a plate of food in my hand if I have to curtsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One of Those Things | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...present circulation (40,000) in a time when Protestantism was so mired down in social reform that it tended to forget theology-a time when the intellectual world often looked on religion as a misty-minded form of escapism. In such an era, the Century dared to speak of Christianity as a way of life, and stuck to the truths of Christian gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Man of the Century | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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