Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain land as big as California, clean their house. A cynical Ecuadorian once told Author Ludwig Bemelmans: "We have a revolution here every Thursday afternoon at half-past two and our Government is run like a nightclub." But last week's uprising, which gave the country its 14th President in 15 years, was more than a nightclub brawl. A popular movement with democratic aspirations had overthrown an unpopular government with dictatorial inclinations. Velasco Ibarra still had to prove that he would be a practicing democrat. After he was elected President in 1934, Ecuador's politicians found...
...Speaks, proudly served drinks from a side table. Said Mrs. Speaks: "You have to work with people to put any program over. I do not believe that there is too much that a Negro Congressman can do alone in Washington." Her platform, however, includes a proposal to revise the 14th Amendment so that southern states that disfranchise Negroes will have their Congressional representation...
...Deals. A loyal Tammanyite and oldtime pillar of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Joe Day was always a tough trader. When he engineered the sale of Tammany's famed 14th Street headquarters, one cynic penned a sarcastic parody of When Day Is Done, ending...
...last week locked the barn door after the theft of a small but valuable ($3,000 to $5,000) picture. Stolen from the Metropolitan's walls was an 11½ by 8⅜ in. tempera painting of St. Thomas the Apostle, attributed by experts to Simone Martini, a 14th-Century Italian painter of the Sienese School...
...powders; in Miami, Fla. Dark, affable, French-born Bedaux came to the U.S. in 1906 as a laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done, but which was widely denounced as exploitation. Rich from his Plan, Bedaux bought a 14th-century French chateau where his friend the Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. On that occasion Bedaux openly admitted: "I am an out-&-out Fascist." In 1937 he planned a U.S. tour for the Duke and Duchess, was stymied by labor leaders' "Baltimore Resolution." In North Africa...