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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no regard for human needs-they have permitted prices to increase 0.3% while merely increasing take-home pay by a lousy $3.84 per week .. . They are demagogues that misrepresent by reporting what takes place at foreign conferences instead of allowing the American public to wait ten years to learn that they were sold down the river. The Republican Party lacks color, so seldom do you hear of one of its stalwarts . . . fleeing the States like Bill O'Dwyer or going to jail like Mayor Curley. What have they ever contributed to compare with good old Mayor Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...could hardly wait until I could tear up that cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Public demand for flood insurance quickly crests and drops off, most companies find. "Wait six months," said a Boston insurance man. "Even those who suffered losses will begin to feel that it could never happen to them again." Nonetheless, many Northeastern businessmen and politicians are talking about Government-backed insurance as the only solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLOOD INSURANCE: Underwriters Keep Their Feet Dry | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...they would supply their allies with the tools of peacetime atomics, including a 6,500 kw. reactor for Red China. The conference chairman, India's Homi Bhabha, was happiest about the lack of politics interfering with science. "There should be another conference," he said. "But let's wait three years. This will give time for some more really interesting information to accumulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Happy Ending | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Marquis and Marquise, who have been married 35 years, made their decision long ago, but wanted to wait until the last of their five children settled down. This week their youngest son, Geoffrey, 23, is to be married. Four of their children (the fifth is a Benedictine monk) will inherit the family fortune. The Marquis and Marquise said goodbye to their family in typical fashion-at a party. Said the Marquis: "I shall miss my hunting rifle most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Leap Over the Turrets | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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