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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a friendly, nonpartisan act was a rarity in the session's frantic final week. Both parties played furious and sometimes shabby politics. There were parries and thrusts-over the listing of grain speculators (see Investigations), over interim aid for Europe and China, and over inflation controls...
...most Congressmen knew, Agriculture Secretary Clinton B. Anderson is empowered by law (the Commodity Exchange Act) to keep an up-to-date list of trades and traders. The Republicans were sure that such a list would reveal the names of other important Democrats. They also knew, of course, that the list would contain the names of some important Republicans. But the committee could choose which big names to put under its investigative spotlight and which to keep in the background. They asked Anderson to produce the list...
Truncheons & Cold Water. Act II opened some 48 hours later, at midnight, when Rome's first serious general strike since 1922 began. Key demands of the Communist-dominated Chamber of Labor: 10 billion lire ($16,500,000) for public works and Christmas gratuities to aid Rome's 70,000 unemployed. Actually, Government plans already called for almost 10½-billion lire for public works; the Reds professed not to believe this...
Bicycles & Opera Bouffe. The Roman temperament had as much to do as the police with turning Act II of the Communist pageant into opera bouffe. From the suburbs each morning of the strike came a gala stream of bicycles. Cycling gallants stopped at the homes of working girls, happily wheeled them to work (as many as dared) or to the park (as all wanted). Fathers joined families in morning strolls behind baby carriages, through the Villa Borghese pines or along the slopes beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near...
...act of forgiveness," says Father Bob, "we have the most effective instrument for the transformation of character. ... If you forgive a boy, his knowledge that he has done wrong is deeper and his penance is more sincere...