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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 18, 1940, after the fall of Holland, Belgium and France, German Ambassador to Moscow Count von der Schulenburg reported: "Molotov . . . expressed the warmest congratulations of the Soviet government on the splendid success of the German armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: For the Record | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...service, brought in Joseph Lyons, who gave his name to the company, thus avoiding confusion with their tobacco company, Salmon & Gluckstein. In an era of mirrored gin palaces, those who could not afford the expensive West End restaurants readily took to the spick-&-span teashops. Lyons soon floated to success on an ocean of tea and toasted buns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPRATIONS: Frood for Lyonch | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...times of peace achieved success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Very Respectable History | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...onetime newsman for Pravda and Tass, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob M. Lomakin is an expert on the Russian press. Last week at Lake Success, U.N. Delegate Lomakin enlightened U.N.'s Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press. What was it, he asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: You're Another | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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