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...Nationalist South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan ordered South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg, to obey his three-year-old law, which compels segregation of blacks, browns and whites. Under the law, 70,000 blacks and 22,000 Indians, many of them prosperous shopkeepers, will be ejected from their homes and stores in downtown Johannesburg and moved, without a penny's compensation, to Jim Crow shantytowns far away from the white suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Asians v. Africans | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...When men like Terracini refuse to obey further orders of the Cominform, when the Socialists find the courage to liberate themselves from Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man from the Mountains | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...months. An Army doctor testified at the inquest that he had heard an ugly little story from Russ's blonde wife that Tongay had been trying to teach the baby to float in the bathtub and had slapped him on the head because he did not obey. But Russ's wife testified that the baby was bruised in a fall down the stairs, and no charges were filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: The Man Who Wept | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...their salaries, and anyway, half of them would be thieves ... I myself . . . will slaughter cattle in the Avenida General Paz, and give meat away free." To get meat to markets, he threatened to "use troops to storm the cattle ranches." As for black-marketing butchers, "I will make them obey by the rifle butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Knife at the Belly | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...National Union, he found séances more rewarding than Socialism, began holding his own "home circle," where he says he established contact with John Galsworthy, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., George V, and his first boss, Lord Northcliffe. (He gives me advice, but I tell him, Chief, I never obeyed you when you were alive, why should I obey you now?'") Once he invited G. B. Shaw to a séance. When Shaw replied: "I gave up table-rapping in my childhood," Swaffer wrote back: "I thought that now you are in your second childhood, you might want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Pope of Fleet Street | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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