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Tongue for Imperialism? Nehru's views were not shared by many of the 36 legislators who took part in the argument. Most of them spoke in English. They offered more than 300 amendments. Southerners were most vehement. They hooted and jeered at pro-Hindi spokesmen, denounced "Hindu imperialism." Madras Representative Ramalingam Chettiar complained: "The way north Indians are trying to dominate us and dictate to us is galling ... I have been in Delhi for two years, and no north Indian has so far invited me even once for social functions, just because I don't know Hindi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Out of Babel | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...grew without inhibitions. It was fascinated by space, color, the vehement sermons of real-estate sharks and the horticultural efficacy of powdered cow manure. It developed into a new kind of city-a sprawling confederacy of villages, with five branch city halls and 932 identifiable neighborhoods, in which life is dedicated to the sun, the lawn sprinkler and the backyard grill, and in which the swimming pool is the mark of success and distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Communist sympathizers. Among them were March's wife, Florence Eldridge, Boston University President Daniel L. Marsh, Radio Writer Norman Corwin and Cinema Stars Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Melvyn Douglas, husband of California's Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. Outraged and vehement denials and sardonic evasions flew from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Inside the Purse | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Homely Approach. Though he also continued his vehement attacks on the 80th Congress, and damned the National Association of Manufacturers, the homely approach set the tone for almost everything the President did last week. The crowds in the border states loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Acres of Folks | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Because he was a corporation lawyer, he was attacked by a vehement Senate minority and by liberals for his "fixed, set, intolerant mentality" when Herbert Hoover appointed him Chief Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: We Serve Our Hour | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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