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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed through despairing depths, ended last week in wan and shaky congratulations among the Democratic majority. There was a great deal of tired, last-minute fun: barbershop ballads, a few well-placed smooches on the cheek by departing Congresswomen and gay festivities by congressional employees (see cut) whose salaries had just been raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...last week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Peace, Brother! | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...visited U.N., saw a stream of callers at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. One night, he drove up to Columbia University; at this shrine of mass education (current enrollment: 29,200), President Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on the Cambridge graduate, some 90% of whose countrymen cannot read or write. As newsmen worked over Nehru in a klieg-lit, stifling hot little room, Eisenhower nervously chewed his mortarboard, muttered: "This is a terrible way to treat a friend." By the time the press was through with Columbia's newest doctor-who wore a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: The Education of a Pandit | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Scoring credit went to outside left Berk Johnson at 5:48 of the second period and to contor forward Bengt Sandberg at 9:05 of the third. But the Yardlings real star was right fullback Charley Ufford, whose long-legged kicking, heading, and tackling almost single-handedly contained Exter's clover attack, which previously had beaten five straight opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 53' Soccer Wins | 10/30/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe, whose totals were still incomplete, registered ten pints yesterday, but most of the dormitories have not been canvassed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Seeks More Blood Volunteers | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

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