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Word: stateser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Daniel meant not that the laws were unalterable," said the President, "but that the Medes and the Persians believed in keeping their contracts. We have been dealing with a great power that does not believe in keeping its contracts. Iran believes in keeping its contracts. The United States believes in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Truman & the Shahinshah | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

He showed up, ragged, half-blind and half-deaf, at the Dixiecrat States' Rights convention in 1948. Stubbornly he refused to let any of his four sons take him in.'To anyone who was interested he would give his still booming opinion on how the Government was presently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: For an Old Debt | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

This week U.N.'s General Assembly moved to create a couple of new states. By an overwhelming vote (48 to 1, with nine abstentions) the Assembly decided, after weeks of bickering and Soviet-bloc obstruction, that the former Italian colony of Libya (pop. 1,120,000) shall be independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Rare Items | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Today, according to Dr. Douglass, there are "more than 700 new communities in the United States-all of them towns with at least 2,500 population-which do not have a single church . . . In the midst of a highly mobile population, a church which is immobilized by denominational divisions just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now Is the Time | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

In New Jersey, as in eleven other states, there is a statute which requires that the Bible be read without comment in every public school. To the Secularists, this was a violation of the "wall of separation between church & state."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secularists at Work | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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