Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote a paper called Konjunktur-spridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle). It was couched in language so abstruse that few of his colleagues understood it, but Dag prefaced it with a quote from Alice in Wonderland: " 'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied in a pleased tone...
...Fourth World Petroleum Congress, oilmen from 44 nations chose Rome, headquarters of Italy's monopolistic Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (E.N.I.), the state-owned oil company that has consistently fought private international development of Italy's oil resources (TIME, Nov. 29). Italy-had offered to be host to the congress, and the oilmen had accepted. The 3,200 delegates hoped to impress E.N.I. and its Boss Enrico Mattel with the power and efficiency of private oilmen, thus persuade E.N.I, to be more cooperative...
...Brentano (see box). ¶To be Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which is set up in a dingy brick building in a Bonn back street. In 1933, Union Organizer Blank chose unemployment rather than the Nazi Arbeitsfront. When war came he joined the Wehrmacht as a private, finished up as a first lieutenant in an American P.W. camp. Blank makes frequent speeches about how the new army will be de-Prussianized; the real soldiers who will command the troops are currently...
...this be said once more, in unmistakable language: In May of 1954, that inept fraternity of politicians and professors known as the United States Supreme Court chose to throw away the established law. These nine men repudiated the Constitution, spit upon the tenth amendment, and rewrote the fundamental law of this land to suit their own gauzy concepts of sociology. If it be said now that the South is flouting the law, let it be said to the high court: you taught...
...world was too dour to please art .collectors, and in the course of 23 long years he sold only two paintings. But with the Depression, Hopper's harsh, lonely ancbhard-bitter view-of America became-understandable to millions. Through the man-made ugliness he most often chose to paint, a raw but very human grandeur began to be felt, and his fame was made...