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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis. Living modestly by Washington standards, he had gone steadily into the red on the White House job. For the last 2½ years, a St. Louis friend whom Clifford describes only as "an older man of substantial means" has been helping him out. "He has sort of taken an interest in me since I started practice," said Clifford. "He felt that I was needed in Government and he told me that he would, as it were, subsidize me and to go ahead and draw on him for what I needed." Altogether Clifford was about $25,000 in debt...
...September 1947, exhorted world Communism to fight the Marshall Plan; the second, in June 1948, disclosed that Tito was a Titoist. From 1949's meeting emerged a call for the "active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that the Red army itself would never...
...performance is all the more sensational when his diet is taken into account. He eats two meals a day-potatoes, corn, quinoa (all first domesticated by Andean Indians) and, very rarely, guinea pig. Andes men seldom get enough to eat; many chew coca leaves to help dull their hunger...
According to Mr. Starobin, Germany is once more to become a bulwark against Communism. In order to do that, Western Germany must be taken into the capitalist world order...
Letters of apology were sent yesterday by Professor Gordon W. Allport, chairman of the Social Relations Department, to several hundred recipients of a poll taken by an undergraduate. The polls were later ordered to be burned...