Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Corbu became the most influential, and possibly the most irritable architect of the 20th century (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), he could only bear the friendship of down-to-earth people, such as his Monaco-born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated...
...Chicago Exchange and from $10,000 to $19,000 in Detroit. On the fast-growing Pacific Coast Exchange, which operates trading floors in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, the price has soared 400% from its $7,500 level in January. Last week the New York brokerage firm of Bear, Stearns & Co. became the second firm in five days to pay $37,500 for a Pacific Coast seat...
...most bitter, most irresponsible, and most heavily financed attack ever aimed at farm and food legislation." Many Congressmen, while naturally leary of supporting anything that smacked of a bread tax, were al most as perturbed by Orville's increasingly vindictive attitude toward the baking industry. "We should bear in mind," cautioned Illinois' Republican Representative Paul Fintlley, "that Secretary Freeman's office often becomes a propaganda mill and his statements are not always reliable...
...Negro−literate or illiterate−who does vote in future elections will have to bear with the ordinary frustrations of democracy: broken promises, corruption, demagoguery, the essential voting weakness of a minority. Perhaps Negroes will at first elect a number of Adam Clayton Powells. But Negro political influence will grow in outright victory of Negro candidates in constituencies where Negroes are a majority, in balance-of-power situations elsewhere, in the minds of vote-hungry politicians everywhere, in political combination with the majority of whites, who wish the Negro well...
...could never, in all time, be changed in such a way as to permit interference with the institution of slavery." Four years later, he was pressing the 13th Amendment on the nation−and in Richmond, Jefferson Davis signed an order offering emancipation for any Negro slave who would bear arms for the South...