Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Campaign Commandos. Poujade prepared for the election by leasing a 30-room hotel outside Saint-Céré, where he ran ten-day training courses for hundreds of picked followers. He created an amateur army of commandos who flung vegetables and abuse at rival speakers or broke up their meetings. He broadened his appeal, organized affiliates for peasants, youth, workers, professionals. He preached only discontent, "throw the rascals out." As it wore on, his campaign grew vaguer. "My program is to have no program," he declared. He put up 819 candidates, made each take an oath never to take...
When he returns to Saint-Céré, where a housekeeper takes care of his two youngest children in a new house he has rented (no central heat, no bath, meals in the kitchen), the town elders glance up from their cards and shrug: "It's only Pierrot." But his organization men, waiting in the backroom, are excited and cordial, report happily of hundreds of new dues-paying members since election, listen while Poujade regales them with a bit of gossip from the big city and a lot of Poujade propaganda...
...fascists on his staff, Poujade is abrupt: "I'm tired of people looking for lice in my hair. I fought the Germans and I know what resistance is. I don't need anybody to give me lessons in patriotism." Asked one man at a recent Saint-Céré meeting: "But what about tax reform?" Snapped Poujade: "That's precisely what we're fighting for, but to achieve real basic reforms we must reform the whole system...
...last season. Another possibility is that the Red orders were placed for a propaganda purpose. Buying token amounts of wheat from Canada at a time when the country is deeply worried about its wheat surplus would be a devious but possibly effective way to make friends. Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe made it clear, however, that as far as Canada was concerned, the business was strictly business. Said Howe: "No quid pro quo has been asked for and none has been offered...
...Normal effective singing range is roughly two octaves, more with voice training. Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas has three octaves, up to F sharp above the staff. The great Caruso had a C -only an octave and four notes lower than Callas' high note, a bottom C down in the bass range, three octaves lower...