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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Broken Fences | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Frenchman living in Paris sent along the following note with his subscription renewal: "One of the strongest reasons I have for reading TIME, aside from its American viewpoint on world affairs, is that . . . when I read it I feel as if I were in America with its freedom and its wide spaces - a freedom we have lost in Europe and the space we never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Impatient with the State Department's attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Time for Action? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Soon after that, President Juan Perón called Saadi to the Casa Rosada and told him that he had been chosen as the strongest possible Peronista candidate to run for governor of Catamarca province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Quicker Deal | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...tingles the spine. The Closing Door is not particularly boring; it's just not much fun. Something unpleasantly oppressive about the play is accentuated by something peculiarly awkward in the playwrighting. Actor Knox, with his very low-keyed but believable performance as Vail, proves Playwright Knox's strongest ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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