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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each other - get together, understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

pick up on what's going down- understand what's happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Maragha's solution would not avail against the subtler and more important Communist methods. Last week's news brought into new prominence three old Communist techniques (see below) that the world needed to understand more clearly, because future Communist efforts would be exerted along these and parallel lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: After Molotov | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...trophy-littered office in the hills above Managua, jowly little Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, since 1937 Dictator-President of Nicaragua, smiled a crooked smile. "I understand the opposition is boasting of its Red Cross arrangements for election day and after. If they plan to test me, I advise them to have plenty of Red Crosses." Armed with wisecracks and 5,000 loyal, U.S. Marine-trained soldiers of the Guardia, Tacho was ready for anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Tacho & the Election | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...cartel." These are trick words, part of an attempt to transfer the public fear of the monopolistic businessman to the Pegler portrait of the "all-powerful" labor leader. Men in the Congress and out of it are attempting to control a social organism of which they know little and understand almost nothing. The problem is bigger than the labor problem. These men who still regard labor organizations as something alien and threatening in our society are fanning fires that will some day get out of control. They are attempting to cripple the organizations that not only serve to give back...

Author: By Mitchell I. Goodman, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

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