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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...definitive answer to the question, see SPORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Street-Corner Campaign | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...minutes of program time, Dewey managed to answer eight questions. He announced he was against socialized medicine ("I don't want politicians taking care of me when I'm sick"), against racial restrictions in public housing, denied he had been ordered to run for office by Wall Street bankers ("the biggest lie of all time"). The most titillating question came from a Columbia University student named Barbara E. Scott. Why, she asked, did he wear a mustache? Answer: shaving hurts the Dewey upper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Street-Corner Campaign | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...caught and shot down by two gunmen in the shadow of the Chicago El. Chicago's Keystone cops skittered busily around town trying to run down a lead to the killers. But wherever they looked for big shots in The Outfit who might be able to answer a few polite questions, the cops found nobody home-the boys were all on abrupt vacations. Running away to hide was something that rarely happened in Big Al Capone's day. But Al, as everyone knew, was not worried by a lot of legitimate investments to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I'm Awfully Hot | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...their best to depict Impellitteri as just an amateur statesman. Republican candidates applauded too, but happily seized on the whole scandal as wonderful campaign proof of Democratic graft and incompetence. According to grapevine report, other Republicans were plotting feverishly to get Ambassador O'Dwyer hauled home to answer a long list of embarrassing questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: To Be Continued | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Times of Calamity." To help kill the inferiority complex, Scelba had a plan. Scelba wanted to establish a civilian volunteer force, a kind of home guard, that could protect Italy against Red sabotage. It was Scelba's answer to recent well-documented reports that the Communists are training guerrillas and saboteurs in the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Militant Mouse | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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