Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when they grow bigger they graduate into tail coats and narrow collars. Etonians must always leave the bottom buttons of their waistcoats unbuttoned, say "absence"' when they mean roll call, and talk a jargon that new boys study from a glossary, may not furl their umbrellas unless they belong...
...York's education commissioner, Stoddard pushed through a $3,000,000 bill to set up a chain of junior colleges. Stoddard considers them the likeliest answer to a ticklish problem in a democracy: what to do with students who don't belong in college or can't get in, but still need more schooling. He also campaigned-unsuccessfully-for a New York state university...
Labor leaders who belong to President Grau's Auténtico (Cuban Revolutionary Party) stayed away from the Congress; so did independents. They called it illegal, because the Government commission appointed to check delegates' credentials had not finished its work. At week's end the anti-Communist forces tentatively scheduled a "legal Congress" for May 18, speculated on who would control the Confederation's treasury if there were rival officers. They wondered if this would force President Grau, who needs Communist support for his administration, to take a stand for or against his Red allies...
...format of Radditudes has been improved over the last issue, especially in the case of a very fine-looking title page. There are two cartoons and four incidental drawings. The drawings are reasonably good, if uninspired, but the cartoons don't seem to belong. A couple of letters to the editors are perhaps the most amusing part of the magazine. One, from a Cliffedweller named Annabelle Freud, complains subtly about the murderous crew of characters in the stories of the last issue. Happily, the editors have taken her advice...
...election (as usual), Trujillo is backed by the Dominican Party, to which everybody in his Government, everybody in his monopolies, and nearly everybody who wants to do business, has to belong. Last time (May 1942), the Benefactor ran on the other party's ticket too. This time he waved his wand, and two phony opposition parties were created...