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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower last week was in Texas for a "social" visit. Before it was over, he had dined in high privacy with San Antonio's wealthiest, had taken to the microphone before some 17,000 Texans in Houston and Galveston, had blasted again & again at the philosophy and practice of the welfare state. To reporters he unblinkingly declaimed: "I don't want a thing to do with politics-but that does not mean that I won't comment on political issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Tell Me, Zebra | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...region which, in the abortive Japanese plan for 'Greater East Asia,' was to have been . . . included, together with China, in a bloc of states under Japanese hegemony. The propaganda against 'Anglo-America' which poured forth from Tokyo only five years ago has now been taken over, sometimes in identical phrases, by Communist China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Moscow-Peking Axis | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...purpose of the test, which was taken by 30 student guinea pigs, is to help determine if such a thing as clairvoyance actually exists, and if it has any correlation with personality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clairvoyants Try Perception Tests | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

This is one of the most peculiar regulations in the history of national security. The Navy, supposedly insuring the loyalty of its own personnel, has now taken upon itself the task of checking on the entirely legal comings and goings of private citizens. Why does the Navy concern itself with the political activity of persons not in the Armed Services? How does the Navy--or possibly some other government agency--plan to use this information gathered at the expense of individual privacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and the Navy | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...recount taken last night at the request of defeated candidate John H. Carnahan, who finished 14th, showed that the election committee had made errors in tabulating the results Wednesday night, when Carter was declared elected and Curwen was put in the 13th spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faulty Count In '50 Voting Is Discovered | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

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