Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 4, 1946, the U. S. pulled out of the Philippine Islands, leaving behind a democratic American-styled government. In the same year, however, passage of the Bell Act provided that Philippine trade would be directed toward the United States by tariff preferences, that the Islands' natural resources be open to U. S. businessmen on an equal footing with Filipinos, that the currency be pegged to the American dollar, and that Philippine profits and capital could not be moved to the U. S. without consent of the American president...
...Bell Report...
...report of the Bell Commission, set up by President Truman to investigate a solution to Philippine economic problems, has just made its report. It recommends a complete house-cleaning of the government financial structure--severe tax revision, enforcement of minimum wages for all workers, and reapportionment of crop shares for tenant farmers. The plan recommends a pact of commerce and navigation which would further direct Philippine economy to prevent waste of the 250 million dollars of loans and grants to carry out the plan...
...appearance of further saints of this type. Perhaps the canonization of Saint Odría of Peru and Saint Trujillo of the Dominican Republic already is in the works. When the day comes that there are five or seven heavenly governments in this hemisphere, it will be the last bell for democracy...
Then the Pope intones the Te Deum of thanksgiving, while St. Peter's big bell sets all the bells of Rome's 400 churches to ringing. At the Pontifical Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter's, which ends the ceremony, the Epistle (the Book of Judith, 13:23) begins: "Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth . . . Because He hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth...