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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dawn of a New Day." Roosevelt asked whether Stalin wished to take these matters up with China's then Foreign Minister T. V. Soong when he came to Moscow, or whether Stalin would prefer that Roosevelt take them up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: We Believed in Our Hearts | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...rose Britain's lean, aging (76) Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell. "When you go back to Prague," he rasped, "tell your employers that the next time we have an international congress of philosophy we'd prefer that they send someone not so crude." Looking like an indignant owl, New York University's Sidney Hook turned his brisk Brooklyn accent against Kolman: "You talk about economic democracy [in Russia]. You mean economic equality. But there is an equality in freedom and equality in slavery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Consolations of Philosophy | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...previously determined conclusions: that [Wallace] is a dirty red or a fooler both ... It is possible," he wrote with heavy sarcasm, "to oppose Mr. Wallace's candidacy on sincere and reasoned grounds: believers in the theory that the boom and bust cycle is inevitable . '. . those who prefer sovereignty enforced by military means at home and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Domestic Affair | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Another man mentioned as possible successor to Chiang was Defense Minister Ho Ying-chin, who leads the Whampoa Military Academy clique. If, as seems likely, the Gimo had a hand in picking his successor, he would probably prefer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: In the Shadow | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...summer suits, two sport jackets, an overcoat, topcoat and raincoat-and you picked them out yourself; your wife seldom if ever shops for your clothes with you. You also own 21 shirts, six pairs of shoes, three hats and 31 ties (but you like only 13 of them). You prefer four-in-hands 10 to 1 over bows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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