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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He was for human welfare. In Herbert Lehman's dictionary, welfare meant "condition of health, happiness, prosperity." What was wrong with that? "This is the bogyman they have set up which is supposed to frighten the wits out of us." Did Dulles think of himself as a Paul Revere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Something New | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Boyd Killingsworth, a gangly youth, admitted that the raid had originated at a meeting of the Adamsville klavern presided over by Brownie's brother. "We stopped by the highway and robed up," said Killingsworth. At the McDanal house, "I helped direct traffic."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: It Sure Was Pretty | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

The defense also paraded 14 witnesses who said that they would not believe Mrs. McDanal under oath, and also produced what it claimed were pictures of Mrs. McDanal posing nude in a cornfield. The judge refused to admit them, but the defense waved them around carelessly and later, quite a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: It Sure Was Pretty | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week in Manhattan the case of Adolf Schmidt was ruled on by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Schmidt's lawyer argued that moral character is not something determined by an immigration examiner but something "that measures up as good among the people of the community in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Good Man | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Americans had come to accept the proposition that "the Marshall Plan is a success." The proposition was true, up to a point. Yet Americans were also learning that, in the battle for the West's survival, every success leads only to the anteroom of another crisis. Last week ECAdministrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: In the Anteroom | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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