Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...songs are not superimposed more or less meaningless on its story; they seem to be what the characters would sing if they ever happened to burst into song. Its comedy characters are not simply eccentrics. Its here is not a Jack Armstrong who has taken singing lessons. Its cast is not just a collection of handsome people; almost everyone can act. It has no ballet. And it has no elaborate finales; both acts end with scenes between the two principals...
...strike of sugar workers as it had previously broken strikes by printers and bakers. But if Evita was being retired, the process was so gradual as to defy detection. This week, she and her husband were to be co-starred in another of their super-colossal productions with a cast of thousands-descamisados and the army-celebrating the new constitution...
...labor conflict. Back in November the United Textile Workers of America (A.F.L.) had called a strike meeting. Of the 4,637 people in Paris, 650 were employed in the Penman's, Ltd. textile mills, the town's No. 1 industry. At the strike meeting, only 51 people cast ballots, 27 in favor of a strike, 24 against it. The company granted a 5?-an-hour increase, but union leaders, seeking 15?, used their three-vote majority to call the first strike in Paris in 42 years...
...function of government," Kennedy said, "is to do for the people what they cannot do themselves. General welfare is separate from the pursuit of private interests." He expressed the opinion that free enterprise should not be lightly cast aside but that public welfare cannot be increased with government intervention...
...misplaced ballots were those cast by the residents of Barnard Hall and Everett House. They were found in Barnard Hall in ballot boxes, where they had been left after the polls closed Wednesday night March...