Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Classics. The Fine Arts department once occupied "the Loft" on the fourth floor, in the days when the only fire escape was a series of ropes on he side of the building towards Emerson. Sever also houses a large collection of classical antiquities, including 42 portrait busts of Julius Caesar. The current refurbishing has doomed the whole collection to the attic...
...receivership, was so close to failure it might close up entirely if it had to stretch its payroll. At a special meeting last week, the Norwalk rubber workers voted, 124 to 45, to drop their demands and to take wage cuts averaging 11? an hour. Explained Union Secretary Caesar Malaterra: "Members felt it was better to keep working than to take a chance of having no jobs...
...There was a time when Britain was in the exporting end of the oyster trade. Julius Caesar took English oysters with him back to Rome, where Historian Gaius Sallust sourly commented: "The poor Britons, there, is some good in them after all; they produce an oyster...
Things That Are Caesar's. In Philadelphia, the tax receiver's office mailed 10,000 receipts to citizens who paid up, got back 28 receipts with checks to cover the same amounts. In Dallas, Internal Revenue officials received an unsigned letter enclosing $105 and a Bible reference: "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due . . ." (Romans 13:7) In Bari, Italy, Widow Teresa Porcaro looked at her tax bill, forthwith died of a heart attack...
Next day, Communist action groups and police swept the country. They seized all church administrative offices, installing officials of the government-sponsored Catholic Action, which Archbishop Beran has denounced as "schismatic." Priests who resisted were immediately arrested. The Communist Caesar recognized no things which were...