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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that not six months ago, London refused large scale immigration into Palestine "because of the large British army that would be required there to keep peace." Yet today, there is a British army of well over 100,000 in the Holy Land whose apparent function is to wipe out the Jewish underground. If the British could succeed in this venture. Palestine would house a permanent Jewish minority. Naturally, the Arab League, even if cut off in Palestine, would make its weight felt throughout the other British interests in the Middle East. After five years, the Arab majority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Progress | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

Outcome of what the E.E.P.C. office yesterday formed "economic discrimination found existing in Massachusetts," the law went into effect on August 21, 1946 after a long fight on the part of various civil groups to wipe out all Vestiges of racial and religious prejudice

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Speaker to Consider History Of State F.E.P.C. | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

...probably the most important chapter of that long career came from Stimson's pen, published in Harper's Magazine under the title The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. In it Stimson disclosed that: 1) he, more than any other man, was responsible for the decision to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2) the two bombs dropped were the only ones which the U.S. had in store at the time. He made the record explicit and complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LEAST ABHORRENT CHOICE | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...best idea I ever heard," declared freewheeling, limber-tongued Irish Novelist Liam O'Flaherty in Paris, "was to wipe out all the women in the world. Then man could stop working entirely. There is plenty of food & drink left for all of us until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prisoners of WOV | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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