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Heavy Hand. Brazilian President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his military supporters, no lovers of Communism, were alive to its threat. But their answer had been crude, soldierly. Instead of slamming a cap on Brazil's runaway inflation (200-300%), linking wages to living costs, the Government had outlawed independent labor unions and suspended the right to strike...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...
...Caspar Marshall Durgin...
Cooks and maids of Rio de Janeiro were incensed. Ex-Provisional President José Linhares, they said, was creating unemployment. Before he handed over Guanabara Palace to incoming President Eurico Caspar Dutra last Jan. 31, he had made his colored cook Rosa an assistant postmistress. Then, being without a cook, he put up at the Copacabana Palace Hotel...
With his convex profile and his hornrimmed glasses, President Lewis J. Clark of the C.I.O. United Packinghouse Workers looks like the Caspar Milquetoast of U.S. labor. With his mere 200,000 members, many pulling at cross-purposes, he holds one of the shakiest of all union leaderships...