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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop Gushing of Boston blames the women for the "coarse and vulgar" modern world [TIME, May 14] ? So did Adam: "The woman Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...days later G&246ring met the Allied press. Fifty-odd newsmen (and some visiting Mexican generals) saw him seated under a pepper tree in Augsburg, fidgeting with a pair of sky-blue gloves. The sun was hot; so were some of the questions. G&246ring sweated, constantly mopped his brow with a rumpled handkerchief. But he lost his composure only once, when a correspondent asked: "What about the Reichsmarshal's statement that if 'the Allies ever bombed Berlin, 'my name is Meyer'?" G&246ring reddened, mopped, fell silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Fat's in the Fire | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Mostly the newsmen let him tell his story as he saw fit. Under the pepper tree, and in interviews with his military captors, he composed a fantastic tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Fat's in the Fire | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Strolling through the White House grounds one day last week, Harry Truman spied workmen digging out the stump of an old, diseased poplar tree. He stopped to watch. Result: the President of the United States was photographed in the friendly, homely pose of a typical sidewalk superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting the Cost | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...course, we, the circle of German physicians at Kiev, were aware of the importance of this job. Aside from certain devious phases of this action I still maintain that, just as one prunes a tree-by removing old, undesirable branches in the spring, so for its own interest a certain hygienical supervision of the body of a people is necessary from time to time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Out of the Pit | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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