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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Truman camp responded to this bluff and soldierly statement with alacrity. Speaking with some warmth, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced: "Apparently General Eisenhower is being heckled and embarrassed by stories [from] Key West. I cannot imagine what foundation there is for [them]. The President wants it to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Friendly Exchange | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

But Judge Ryan felt differently about it. He gave the Government until this week to produce sworn affidavits from the 23 FBI agents involved in the case and offered the defense a chance to cross-examine any or all of them if they desired. Unless the U.S. could prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tainted Source | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Jane's also reported that the Russians are at work on three 35,000-ton battleships, each "equipped with two catapult towers for firing radio-controlled aerial torpedoes." Two of them, reputedly laid down at Archangel in 1942, may already be in commission; the other is reported to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Red Sea Power | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Across the broad, rich land, people also wrapped and sealed their own packages for relatives in the Old Country, or for old acquaintances from old vacation trips, or for strangers whose names they had got by chance. A portly gentleman on Boston's Beacon Hill sent off a consignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: All on Earth Together | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

"It Teaches Lesson." The gift parcels from people like the Pierces, which for weeks had been streaming overseas from U.S. ports (the New York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: All on Earth Together | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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