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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seizure of the Harvard Botanical Gardens by the City of Cambridge, and subsequent use of the site for emergency housing may become an immediate reality unless University officials present a housing plan of their own to City Manager John B. Atkinson by tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge May Seize Botanical Garden Site | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...original city plan to seize the land by eminent domain at $1 a year and use it for emergency housing for "a period not to exceed five years," was shelved in February, 1946 when the University presented a counter-proposal to put up permanent buildings and rent them to its own personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge May Seize Botanical Garden Site | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...Giuseppe di Vittorio, brassknuckled labor leader, who controls most of Italy's labor unions; through them he can cripple Italy's entire industry. This week, as a small sample of what he could do, he led a one-hour nationwide general strike. If the Communists decide to use strikes and sabotage rather than open violence, Di Vittorio would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: How to Hang On | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Certain provocative postures accentuate still more the indecency . . . especially ... a certain posture (pardon the comparison!) which brings to mind a posture that dogs often use. These ladies seem to think it impossible to skate gracefully without lifting a leg as high as possible . . . and facing the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Frankly Indecent | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Editor Reger feels fairly hopeful about the future. "In the American zone," said he, "we have a good start. We have made fair use of the freedoms that have been granted. In the press the feeling for democracy is much stronger than it is in the political parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fourth Ingredient | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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