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Strikes are comparatively rare in Britain these days. Most British workers have been willing enough to heed their government's pleas, swallow their grievances and stay on the job. But there are some things a self-respecting Briton can't swallow. That was the way of it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Chin | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Refusing to heed the pleas of Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, the Senate ducked a 14-year-old issue and ordered the St. Lawrence Seaway bill returned to committee for further study. Said Wiley: "I know when I've been kicked in the pants."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

¶ In New Jersey's Bergen County Common Pleas Court, U.S. citizenship was granted in a hurry to Mrs. Stella Lewandowski, widowed mother of three sons killed in World War II.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Between rifle blasts and the snorting of boilers, garrulous grumblings on the part of rifle team president and secretary, Hale and David Knight, are rising from the hot, noisy nether-regions of the Indoor Athletic Building these days. Punctuating these meanings are pleas for University financial and spiritual aid for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

Some of the big political issues for 1948 had already been raised; the main battle lines were drawn. For a while, it would be Harry Truman's prerogative to keep the Republican congressional majority on the defensive. In rapid succession, the President would deliver three messages: on the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fateful Calendar | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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