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Saltonstall had wired the House, stating that the bill could have been held up by the Democratic senators present if they had demanded a quorum. He said Senate action with so small a number present was "normal procedure."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass. State Representatives Defeat Move To Censure Saltonstall on Conant Approval | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

"What is the 1952 version of the old-fashioned Christmas story?" wired TIME Correspondent John McCormally from Kansas. "Isn't the story basically the same-charity? Not just the rich being charitable to the poor, but the free giving a hand to the struggling, the confident reassuring the doubtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The One-Town Skirmish | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Wired & Whipped. Both Bailey and Sampson faced opposition from the Malan government, whose nightmare is "whites drowning in a black sea." The government threatened to choke off Drum's paper supply for such things as printing pictures of Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with a Negro. Police have also taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: South African Drumbeats | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

¶Gadget of the week: a "student reaction meter" invented by two professors of engineering at the University of Tennessee. Henceforth, a student in the college of engineering will be able to protest that he doesn't understand what the teacher is saying by merely pressing his own special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

When the young bush nurse drove her buggy up to a tenant shack on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia, she expected to find teething trouble or an upset stomach. Instead, she found the stockman's 2½-year-old daughter lying crippled on a cot. One knee was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Stubborn Sister | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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