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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile, the Government had moved fast to crush an abortive army conspiracy which was blamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...switch on "Lost Horizon" involves French Foreign Legionnaires instead of victims of a plane crush...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

Tyrone was calm throughout the pushing and hauling that attended his arrival. Thousands of bobby-soxers cried their admiration for Ty il Magnifico. In the crush, one of them left her fur-cuffed sleeve on the running board of Tyrone's car. When Linda arrived half an hour later, the crowds broke through the police lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: And Circuses | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

According to the latest reports at the Boylston office, the subsidiary branches of the Institute at other Chinese universities are still in operation. The Institute has still to decide whether or not it will continue its activities if the Reds crush the constitutional government. Yale has already announced it will continue its educational activities in China despite the Communist revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yenching Head Flees Captured Peking | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

...took a less personal view of China's crisis; he was still willing to negotiate. Other Kuomintang leaders stood with Chiang. The newspaper Ta Rang Pao railed against "peace politicians who let themselves be mouthpieces for Stalin" and "peace rumors that sugar-coat a poison designed to crush the Chinese government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sugar-Coated Poison | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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