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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coalition Dilemma. Said Premier Bidault last week: "We must govern in the center with the aid of the right to reach the goals of the left." This Gallic triple-talk indicated the weakness of the coalition that Bidault must depend upon to govern. As long as the present Chamber of Deputies exists, only patchwork coalitions of devious and delicate compromise will be possible. An increasing number of deputies want to dissolve the Chamber and hold new elections. Yet that would do little good unless there were a change in France's basic electoral law. The present law, providing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jerry-Built | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Cambridge businessmen feel that Lever Brothers' decision was a move not to escape from Cambridge but simply to get to New York where the firm can gather all of its offices under one roof and keep close watch over its Manhattan advertising agencies. The Chamber of Commerce can supply several convincing arguments that Cambridge's industrial position is still strong...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...Russian vodka, $2,000,000 worth, and sell it to the people in the U.S. I told them it wouldn't hurt Russia a bit." Two months ago Ed left for Europe with a bunch of Indianapolis businessmen on a tour sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and when he got to Helsinki, he decided to use his visa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: VIP | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...true that neither newspaper had mentioned the case. But was it deliberate suppression? Editors said no. They blamed their failure to cover the story, not on the influence of the advertising department but on "reporter incompetence." The hearings had taken place in a seldom-used chamber of the eight-story U.S. courthouse, and reporters had simply overlooked them. When the case is resumed, the editors said, they expect to cover it. But at week's end, neither the Oregonian nor the Journal had admitted the oversight in print-or told its readers anything about the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oversight | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...golf team finished its fall tryouts last Friday at the Dedham Golf Club with a former Cincinnati Junior Chamber of Commerce champion, Dave Gorman, Captain Bob Matson, and Hugh Nawn shooting low scores of 73, 73, and 74 respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Finishes Fall Squad Tryouts | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

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