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Dates: during 1950-1950
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There were 574 cases involving civilian Government employees and 69 are still under investigation; in all the other cases the accused had either quit, been cleared or fired. The investigators found the greatest batch of civilian cases-143-in the State Department. State had cleared or gotten rid of all but a dozen whose cases were still pending. A surprise second in the totals was the Veterans Administration, with 101 cases. Others: Atomic Energy Commission, 8; EGA, 27; Congress' legislative agencies (Library of Congress, congressional employees, etc.), 19; White House office, none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Object Lesson | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Very little in the first hundred pages of this final batch of F.D.R.'s letters (Vols. III & IV cover the years from 1928 to 1945) would lead anyone to suspect that he would soon become one of the most daring and controversial political leaders of his time. But after he took office as President, the letters have a more thoughtful tone; they are dominated by a grave anxiety over the future of the country and by an almost imperious energy in behalf of the program by which Roosevelt proposed to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politician into President | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...boasting, "No bossy but no bossy has finer manure than Gimbels," the store said: "We think it's a bright-eyed idea to give someone manure for Christmas. Tickle the earth, say we, and she'll laugh a harvest . . . We'll ship a magnificent one-ton batch of Daisy's finest to your door (or to the rear door or the barn) for $19 . . ." The store coyly cautioned that it was not prepared to gift-wrap the purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...story of the city girl's triumph makes as wholesome a batch of cornmeal mush as Hollywood has cooked up all year. Though some of the slapstick enlivens a few moments, Never a Dull Moment gives a moviegoer plenty of time to wonder why well-to-do Songwriter Dunne doesn't plow her royalties into the ranch and save everyone a lot of bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...went ahead last week issuing another batch of selective controls: ¶ Steelmen were ordered to deliver 30,000 tons of steel to shipbuilders for construction of Great Lakes ore carriers in the first quarter of 1951. Next on the list: allocations for oil refineries and power plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Drastic Surgery | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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