Word: 1870s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds and swarms, the politicians, pundits and pollsters descended on the Midwest. Not since the great locust plagues of the 1870s had the farm states seen such an invasion: candidates criss crossed one another's paths, columnists probed and interviewed, and any farmer who had not been polled by the pollsters felt sadly neglected. The consensus at week's end: Adlai Stevenson has cut into Dwight Eisenhower's farm strength, but not by enough to win the national election...
During the strife-torn 1870s in Paris, a passing proletarian stopped by a sidewalk table at the Café de la Paix to jeer at an elderly champagne-sipper: "You! We didn't get you in '48, but we won't miss in the next revolution." Last week the revolution finally engulfed the Café de la Paix. After 86 years as a bastion of fashion (and fancy prices), the famed restaurant turned over one-eighth of its floor space to an American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations...
...bitter and recurring debate in U.S. history concerns the money supply. In the 1870s and '80s national elections were fought on the issue of tight v. easy money; new parties-the Populists, the Green-backers-sprang up whose primary function was to argue for a looser money supply. William Jennings Bryan, Boy Orator of the Platte, won his reputation and the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896 with a plea for easier money...
...final debate on Guatemala's new constitution was hardly above the barroom level, the charter itself, proclaimed last week by President Carlos Castillo Armas, was a model of good intentions. Major changes: ¶ Churches and religious orders, denied legal status since Guatemala's anticlerical laws of the 1870s, get back full lawful rights, including the right to own property. ¶ The Communist and other totalitarian parties are banned, along with all Communist activity by individuals or groups. ¶ The National University is guaranteed 2% of the national budget. ¶ The exiling of citizens, hitherto a favored political punishment...
During the 1870s, it suffered an epidemic of cholera, lived through the Russo-Turkish war, was reduced to an enrollment of only 128 after Sultan Abdul Hamid II issued a decree barring Moslem Turks from foreign schools. The 1890s brought another cholera epidemic. Then the country had an earthquake, and Turkey went to war with Greece. As the college was just recovering, the Young Turks revolted. Then came the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Kemal Ataturk revolution of the '20s, and the Great Depression. By 1944, when Ballantine's able predecessor, Floyd Black, took over, the college...