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Once upon a time, Brer B'ar was induced to take Brer Rabbit's place in a snare by the promise that he would thus make $1 a minute. Last week, U.S. corporations had Brer B'ar outclassed-and their earnings had almost reached the realm of fable. They were making $33,000 a minute. The Department of Commerce estimated that for the first six months, profits were at an annual rate of $29 billion before taxes, up $8 billion from last year and $4.5 billion above 1943's previous alltime high. Estimated profit after taxes...
Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
...January, as another step toward "preventing any fur ther agression by Germany," a military alliance was ar ranged between...
...suggested, without extravagance, that our modern Western Civilization would probably have been derived from an Irish instead of a Roman embryo either if Colman instead of Wilfrid had won the Synod of Whitby in A.D. 664, or again if Abd-ar-Rahman instead of Charles Martel had won the battle of Tours in A.D. 732."-A. J. Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that...
Nobody in his senses believed that Guatemala seriously contemplated expropriating the United Fruit's immense, highly mechanized plantations. With a bark fiercer than his bite, Arévalo in his 20 months of rule had not even got around to using his constitutional power to revise the company's 50-year exemption from new taxation. But his bold speechifying had an immediate effect: next day the strike was suspended; United Fruit agreed to rehire hundreds of discharged workers and ordered its ships to resume their calls at the Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios...