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Last summer, Congress' Republican majority rammed a frog down the throat of the "Voice of America," and left it croaking. The Voice is the short-wave radio section of the State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. Suspicious that OIC might be as much a spreader of Democratic propaganda as the democratic way of life, Congress lopped 40% from its requested appropriation, gave it only $12.4 million to operate on this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The G.O.P. Hears a Voice | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Long and Jimmy Morrison got down on all fours, playing the game of politics. Morrison confided last week: "The other day I got my rumor factory goin' on the story that Earl has cancer of the throat. I know it ain't so, but that's politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Old Girl's New Boy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...October with the kidnaping of a young girl. She told police that half a dozen Negroes had raped her at knifepoint. About three weeks later, 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, clubwoman and wife of a former assistant attorney general of Indiana, was murdered in her suburban home. Her throat had been ripped open with a butcher knife. Her killing is still unsolved. Next, a cab driver was beaten to death. Five Negroes, who claimed he took 15? too much from them, will be tried for the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Frightened City | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...ballots were taken out of an urn and counted by the council's oldest member. Something seemed to stick in his throat. "For Monsieur Léonard-ah-ah-13 votes. For Madame Lehut, 14 votes. Madame Lehut is elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Madame Is Elected | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Fitz to be Tighe-d and I'm going insani. Besides, B.U. will be Gannon for us and using all their Giles to Hatch a plot and Turnan a victory. You're Stowart now, but before you're Stone drunk let me Ramacorti of rye down my throat and go Dwyer than a kite by saying. Harvard...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: 'They'll Be Terrier-fied' -Hu | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

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