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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voting requirements might prove more harmful to their cause than the present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll-tax 2 amendment went down by a 24,000-vote margin. ¶Campaign strategists for Senator Robert Taft got off to a flying start in the 1950 elections by steering through an amendment eliminating straight-ticket voting from the Ohio ballot and substituting the "Masachusetts ballot," which lists all candidates alphabetically by office and without regard to party. Taft supporters, who feared the drawing power of popular Democratic Governor Frank Lausche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Be It Resolved . . . | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...paintings in Foujita's new show had all been done in the past eight months. The most memorable of them were snowy idealizations of naked ladies lying down and animal pictures that brought Arthur Rackham and the fables of La Fontaine to mind. He had been inspired to start both series, said Foujita, by a dream in which animals in human dress had mingled with humans in nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elegance | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Over at the rival New Orleans States (circ. 96,228), anguished City Editor Walter Cowan called Society Editor Eva Stewart on the carpet. She had heard about the story, but had not gotten around to checking up on the prince. Cowan decided that it was not too late to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Copy | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...well ask what all the critical tizzy is about. In The Woman of Rome, Moravia has blended poverty and lust with considerable technical skill, but, given Adriana's temperament, his bid for deeper meanings, e.g., human helplessness caught in life's iron grip, was doomed from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Love or Money | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Drake was perhaps the outstanding man on the field. From a slow start he became the hardest-charging man in the game. Batchelder, in his last game as captain, was flawless in the goal, making upwards of 20 saves...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Crimson Booters Shut Out Eli, 2-0 | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

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