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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heterogeneous mass has risen a vast confusion over aims and a debilitating internecine strife over fundamentals, with treatment of the Communists lying at the heart of the difficulty. Strained Russian-American relations have transformed Communism from a wartime ally into the greatest red herring in the American press. This swift change of opinion, coupled with Truman's domestic difficulties has-put organizations of the left wing on the defensive. If the Democratic Party is to recover, if it is to galvanize its forces under one program, it remains for these elements to find some common ground for working with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 1/15/1947 | See Source »

...when he finished second in a big race. Last week his trainer bravely entered him in the $50,000 added San Carlos Handicap, at California's million-dollar Santa Anita track. Among the 17 other horses in the race were Elizabeth Arden's proud Knockdown, and a swift horse named Buzfuz, recently flown in from Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sleeper Wakes | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, January 8--In a swift and spectacular demonstration of unity on international affairs, the Senate today unanimously confired Gen. George C. Marshall as Secretary of State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Confirms General Marshall Appointment as Democrats Warn G. O. P. Not to Sabotage President | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

Fake Bottom. But, across the U.S., skyhigh butter prices had started to sag in mid-December. In Chicago they went down 7?. A fortnight ago Swift & Co. was so sure they were going down that it contracted to sell upward of 50,000 lbs. of butter to state institutions at 69? a lb., starting in January. So the worried league stepped in and bought upward of 500,000 lbs. of butter, kept a false bottom under the New York market until the January price of milk was set where the farmers wanted it. When the league stopped buying, the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Hump? | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...other encounter, a close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hand Me My Kady | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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