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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: No More Rain-in-the-Face | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

"After you'd been chased by the Government for 15 years, brother, you'd be thin too," cracked Hallinan. That was good for a laugh. But as things stood in the fifth week of trial, the defense did not have much else to laugh about.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: You'd Be Thin, Too | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The brown, heavily stamped parcels also went behind the Iron Curtain, to Czechoslovakia and Poland, where the Communist authorities officially declared that such gifts from America were unnecessary, and had so intimidated their recipients that many sent the parcels back unopened. Some 66,000 of the parcels went to Austria...

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

His fight against the Dutch ended, Soekarno turned relatively conservative, broke with the Communists who at first had supported him. To the press, he issued photographs of himself and his handsome family, like any Western politician; recently, he urged his extremist followers to accept the agreement signed last month at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Vacuum Called Freedom | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Like Enemy Airplanes. Bordello-keepers united against the anti-brothel bill and raised a 60 million lire ($96,000) fighting fund. In one house in Milan, any customer signing a petition against the bill was awarded one free visit. The girls and the worried madam in a swank Naples house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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