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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Versailles the Big Four had been split before the conference began. Wilson acted rather as an arbiter between an unreasonably vindictive France and a prostrate Germany than as a member of a victorious coalition. Soon British policy likewise came to favor the reconstruction of a moderately strong Germany to balance France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Yalta v. Versailles | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...actually a medley of conferences: Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt conferred on overall plans; Eden and Molotov with Stettinius on preliminary plans for Germany and liberated Europe; Admiral Kuznetsov, the Red Army's Deputy Chief of Staff Antonev, Marshal of Aviation Kutyarov with Britain's General Brooke, Field Marshal Wilson, Admiral Cunningham and the U.S. military (see U.S. AT WAR) on final war plans. Stalin had much the smallest staff (the joint announcement listed twelve Britons, 13 Americans, only eight Russians in attendance on the Big Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: In the Shadow of Ai-Dagh | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Chairman. The A.B.A. report was the work of three banking associations with titles as impressive as their memberships. But the philosophy of the critique is largely that of Missouri-born Wilson Linn Hemingway, 64, president of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report on Bretton Woods | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...phenomenal show. Blackouts shamelessly parades some of the hoariest and hammiest tricks known to vaudeville, plus a few from burlesque. It reels off regulation acrobats, trained dogs, whistlers, warblers, hoofers, drummers, fiddlers, pianists, contortionists, mimics, a chorus line of old women, and a chesty, baby-voiced leading lady, Marie Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: California Gold Mine | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: California Gold Mine | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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