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...pundits were mum, so was Senhor Vargas. His only campaign promise had been to turn out the ins. The gaúchos of his southern frontier district have a saying: "He can wait like an Indian and plan like a Jesuit." This week Vargas issued no victory cries, no bright new programs. He didn't say a single word. He remained at his bare ranch house at Itu, occasionally went out to putter in his garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Little One | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Athens, Ga., the University of Georgia, over highly rated Maryland, 27-7, in the major upset of college football's opening week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...swamped with calls from angry ex-marines, their families and friends. At the Hotel Statler, the Marine Corps League happened to be holding a convention. The outraged feelings of the Marine veterans reached a steamy climax in a 20-minute speech delivered by Sheriff William Harris, of Chatham County, Ga., who referred to "that creature in the White House," and blamed as the source of the Marines' troubles the man who had tried to cut Marine strength to the bone -Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, that "incompetent damn fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: When I Make a Mistake | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...Author Gordon's fictional echo, with alterations, of the 1946 lynchings near Monroe, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946), two people weren't content to let the case rest. One of them was Melady, a New York reporter who had covered the intimidation trial. The other was Nathan Hamilton, husband of one of the victims. Up North when the verdict came, Nathan packed a Luger in his bag and started south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intrusion in the Dust | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...Needle. In Atlanta, the State Labor Department ruled that the girls who quit their jobs in a Tifton, Ga. 5-&-10? store were entitled to unemployment compensation: "While an employer may prescribe reasonable rules and regulations, a threat to sew up his female employees' pockets is ... good cause for them to quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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