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...saluting Communist colleagues), with threats and pleas for order from the chair-and with most of the 60 lady delegates voting for Reuther-labor's most democratic union elected its leader. Reuther squeaked in by a hair (4,444 to 4,320). R. J. Thomas wept and stumbled off the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Little Redhead | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...believed in China for the Chinese, in the supremacy of the Kuomintang. He was unflaggingly loyal to Chiang. "I am," he once said, "the Generalissimo's Tai Li and nothing more." When he heard the news of his man's death, the Generalissimo wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Generalissimo's Man | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...afternoon of the 113th day, after a 25-hour nonstop conference, the General Motors strike was settled. When news of the settlement reached the pickets at the Cadillac motor plant, some of them wept. In Detroit, some pickets shouted, tore up their placards and threw them to the March winds; Chevrolet Local 235 ordered its men to keep marching until ratification of the agreement by the rank & file was final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: After Many a Day | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

During his first song, Handel's Let Me Weep, Lord!, De Luca wept. So did most of his audience, for the great baritone voice had lost none of its splendor; if anything, it was even more musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Do You Do | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...that he was anxious to meet relatives and friends of Cleveland people. That started a forlorn parade to his room at the Athenee Palace Hotel. In a fortnight he plodded through 675 interviews, and the pattern was the same as in Belgrade and Prague, Nürnberg and Trieste. Wept hollow-cheeked Bertha Lutwak: "Tell my uncle in Cincinnati I am in great need." Attorney Dumitru Ellenes had a sad message for his brother-in-law: "Our family was deported to Austria; only our sister Helen returned alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Broken-English Editor | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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