Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rowe, who illustrated the collection of Old Testament narratives (In Our Image) from which our color spread was taken, has done a number of TIME covers, some of which are reproduced below. His work for us was interrupted four years ago when he took on the Old Testament assignment...
...Truman took no notice of his resignation then. He liked Dr. Nourse personally, even if he disregarded his advice. Twice again Nourse tried to get action on his resignation and received no answer from the White House. Then last week Nourse made his speech...
Pedestrians peered and crowded, babbling curiously. A Capitol cop who was walking his beat on the West Front took one look at the shouting guardsmen and prepared for countermeasures...
...Middle Eastern Affairs division. As U.S. ambassador to Persia from 1946 to 1948, George Allen had served in another trouble spot during a troubled time, with conspicuous success. Recalled to Washington in 1948, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (i.e., propaganda chief) and took over the job of giving vigor and consistency to the quavering Voice of America. The U.S.S.R. gave him the firmest recognition of his work; it put more than 200 stations to the job of jamming the Voice, has not yet succeeded in fully muffling its programs...
...week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...