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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hot Time at the Waxworks | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...last marriage, in 1945, to a balding, amiable theatrical producer named W. Horace Schmidlapp, had long since disintegrated. So had her career. She was still working in B pictures, but she had lost her appeal at the box office. Her health was not good-she suffered from amoebic dysentery contracted overseas. There were rumors that she was broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Casually in Hollywood | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...From the pulpit of Boston's South Baptist Church, the Rev. Louis W. West offered his congregation some political advice: "Most of us in this church are Republicans and the male members have a grand opportunity to show their party loyalty. I suggest they should all grow a Governor Thomas E. Dewey mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 19, 1948 | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...lawyer had pleaded that he was "a fanatic . . . doing what he thought best for his country." Said Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford, who had taken more than two months to mull over the evidence: "A fanatic can do as much harm to his country as any other person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: No. 3 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Alexander W. Weddell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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