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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important to have? 1) The right to say or write what one believes without fear of punishment? 2) The right to work at any job one chooses? 3) Protection from unreasonable interference by police? 4) The right to vote in a fair and free election to decide who shall govern the country? 5) The right to private ownership of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...warning is apparently no longer a deterrent to science's Peeping Toms. The 20th Century analyst, says Charles D. Abbott, is "passionately absorbed in the pursuit of hows and whys," and flatly refuses "to accept anything, even a work of art, without . . . trying to discover the laws that govern its making, the impulses that give it birth." So when Professor Abbott, a true son of his times, took over the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo, he struggled to find some up-to-date way of expressing his passionate interest in poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peeping Toms | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...After a while you get to know certain things and govern yourself accordingly. You do not, of course, just drop in on President Alemán. But once you are with him, he sits back for a long chat with you as if he had nothing on his mind but to solve your problems. He has an extraordinary amount of that Mexican charm I was speaking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Regional chairman Lawrence Jaffa 2Div announced that in addition to adopting the Constitution which will govern NSA'S activities locally, the gathering of 50-odd schools plan outlining a specific program of projects for the coming term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Delegates Will Head for NSA Meeting | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...most astonishing facts to be found in China today are not in the realms of war or politics but in finance. Chinese Government expenditures, when translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing rate of exchange, are on a Lilliputian scale. To govern the 450 million Chinese in a territory one-third larger than the U.S. and to carry all the expenses of the war, the Chinese Government now spends approximately the same sum annually as the municipal government of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: REPORT ON CHINA | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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