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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, about the only supporters Henry had left besides the P.C.A. were the Communist Daily Worker, Vito Marcantonio, Harry Bridges, and a fringe of other left-wing labor men. Six days after the proposal was made, Henry had not yet said either yes or no. But it was painfully evident to Democratic politicians that if he did form a third party, it would be bad for them, although not necessarily fatal. Republicans were jubilant: it would do them no harm whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Modest Proposal | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...will be needed and is of benefit to the Polish nation." Delegates broke into prolonged cheering, winding up with a spirited singing of The Red Banner, which is the Polish Socialist hymn. And when Boleslaw Drobner, Cracow's short, walrus-mustached Socialist leader who always wears a black worker's jerkin, added, "We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our affairs," the demonstration was trebled in noise and duration. With a decisive no, the Socialists rejected Gomulka's suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Not Yet | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Chinese and Japanese of small means banded together in huis (syndicates), pooling their resources and promoting business enterprises. A former social service worker, Hung Wai Ching, organized his friends and swung a $320,000 deal to acquire Honolulu's gaudy Lau Yee Chai nightclub. With Ruddy Tongg, one of the most successful of the new promoters. Hung has recently started Transpacific Air Lines (inter-island). Ruddy Tongg owns a printing and publishing business in Oahu and cattle ranches on Hawaii. Chin Ho, another Chinese, organized the company which purchased the Waianae sugar plantation on Oahu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Knock on the Door | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...survive, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has had to make a few bourgeois compromises. It has added a horserace handicapper, a crossword puzzle, a gossip columnist, and comic strips-The Nebbs, Gene Byrnes's Reg'lar Fellers, and Gluyas Williams' gentle panels on suburbia. But last week it was having trouble keeping its comics. Writers Stanley and Betsy Baer said they did not want their Nebbs in Communist company, and the Worker let them go. Then Artist Byrnes said he wanted to withdraw his strip. The Worker said no. It would not cancel its contract with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Afraid of What? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...over to the Free Enterprise system of Wall Street and the N.A.M. by the 'propaganda' in Reg'lar Fellers. Well, there's your challenge: don't you trust Jimmy Dugan and Fatso to stay true to capitalism ... in the columns of the Daily Worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Afraid of What? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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