Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Empire? The Dutch got to Indonesia in 1595. Their empire-building East India Company soon started an acquisitive process that whittled away at the native princes' domains for a century and a half. From then on, except for a brief British occupation (1811-16), the Indies were Netherlands property until World...
After one brief day in his Argentine Elba, the federal prison on Martin Garcia Island, Juan Domingo Perón overturned the moderates who had forced his resignation and vaulted back to the balcony of Government House. Thousands of Perón-struck workers cheered: "Viva Perón! Viva labor! Viva Argentina!" Colonel Perón did not bother to reassume his old offices or even to rejoin the army. Seven days after his return, he was still Argentina's master...
Died. Joseph Cardinal MacRory, 84, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland; after a brief illness; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Scion of a lusty clan called "The Burnderries" (because in 1608 they rebelled against the British and burned London derry), the doughty Archbishop bitterly opposed the partition of Ireland. For his funeral Prime Minister Eamon de Valera said that he would go from Eire into Northern Ireland for the first time in 17 years...
...Shirley. Since her recent marriage to Army Sergeant John Agar, who has returned to camp after a brief honeymoon, Shirley has attracted more attention than ever from cinemaddicts...
...usual vaudevillian pattern of brief appearances by a large number of well-known Paramount characters is followed to the letter. While it obviously isn't art, it is undeniably good, or at least varied, entertainment. There are, in fact, several numbers which go over very well, particularly a humorous biography of Crooner Crosby, narrated quite cynically by Bob Benchley to Crosby's four equally cynical sons...