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But for Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Inching | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

John L. Lewis is the most even-tempered man in Big Labor-he is always in, emerging from or entering a mood of righteous fury. But even John L. had a hard time last week thinking up some new way of showing his contempt for the big bosses of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Proper Pitch | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

It made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Tough | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Dragging more as the end approaches, the play seems to have been written on a streetcar called "Hurry-up." A bumpy, uneven plot that strays off the track more than once, and a jolting dialogue that gathers speed only when heading downhill, suggest haste more than tempered reflection. The few...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

A, Jack Koosan '47, chairman of the Zionist Society, tempered his enthusiasm with the statement that "this is the beginning of a tremendous job. The Jewish State is assured, put it is not yet established; it does, however, give us a new incentive."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zionists Link with Palestine Colony, Rejoice at Partition | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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