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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after the November election, the Association advised its members to "confer" with Senators and Representatives before those gentlemen headed for Washington. The lobby meant, of course, for the heat to be applied in the home districts, so that the selling job in the Capital would be easier...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Federal Aid to Education: II | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

...months there had been no cheaper, easier or surer way of entering the U.S. than just following the path of love & marriage. If an American G.I. married a foreigner the U.S. not only admitted her, but paid her passage as well. The wives of ex-G.I.s were also welcome. So were their fiancées-although, according to law, unmarried girls were hustled right back home if they didn't get their men to the altar in go days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Path of Love | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...sake," says Erni, "simply does not exist. It's the idea that matters." The ideas that Erni tries to put on canvas are often understandable enough in themselves, but that does not make them any easier to picture. For example, how should an artist express the thoughts of a pregnant woman sitting on the ground somewhere in Europe? The first part of Erni's solution was to get the woman on canvas as realistically as he could and give her ah expression of dull waiting. Then, just over her head, he drew a tangled cat's cradle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Inside Out | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

According to Princeton officials, however, the new program does not make it any easier for a student to earn his degree. Most students who failed under the old system will also fall under the new one, they explain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Failing Tigers Get New Life | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

...seemed to Reginald Kell that "there must be some easier way out than engineering." So he took up the clarinet. After one day, because he had once studied violin, he could play a couple of tunes. In ten years, he was a professor of clarinet in the Royal Academy of Music, which later made him a Fellow, "a fate I thought reserved only for respectable musicians, like an organist at St. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Respectable Rabbit | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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