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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...This proves that in the presence of an honest and intelligent man, the processes of democracy cannot be used successfully to destroy this Republic. Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...hushed audience, Murray told of "meetings" in New York between Communist Party Bosses William Foster and Eugene Dennis, U.E. Bosses James Matles and Julius Emspak and "our good friend Harry Bridges." He charged: "There evolved plans and policies to corrupt and destroy if possible the trade union movement in America. And if our country was engulfed in another war, they would go underground and undermine the people and this Government of ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Run | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...that class distinction exists behind the pearly gates should make a point of dying in Klerksdorp . . . Yet the enlightened men of Klerksdorp have not assuaged all our post-earthly anxieties. Will St. Peter provide separate counters for applicants for immortality? Will mixed celestial orchestras twang their harps and so destroy in heaven all the good the intelligentsia of Klerksdorp have done on earth? We must not be captious. It is enough for the moment to know that one can see Klerksdorp, and die-like a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Departheid | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...through one of its campaign promises to eliminate a particular grade crossing, would ruin the economy of East Cambridge. He explained the boundaries of East Cambridge, which include the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Drainage canal, another railroad and the Charles River, and showed how the proposed change would destroy the basis for the well-being of its citizens. The audience loudly agreed, and the chairman returned...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

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