Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the strange case of Melvin Hass had become a statewide story. Kansans who had laughed for years over flouting the law, but had done little to get it off the books, growled at the severity of Hass's penalty and at the hypocrisy of other citizens who vote dry and drink wet. In Wichita, a group of businessmen started a fund to buy a new car for Scapegoat Hass. By this week they had raised more than $800 and formed a club called: "It Could Happen to Me." They hoped that the incident would help Kansas overthrow...
Mostly, the investments were made years ago. Since the war new private capital has fought shy of Latin America. By putting up bars to payment of interest and principal, Latinos have done much to frighten new private U.S. capital away.† Last month Brazil reimposed a 5% tax on exported profits, and Argentina allows no dollars to leave unless matched by newly invested dollars. In every republic except Venezuela remittances are subject to costly exchange-control delays. In Socialist-run Venezuela, which currently offers the best Latin American climate for new private enterprise, U.S. oil companies plan to invest...
Like most apprentice painters of the period, Bruegel had begun by making a trip to Italy to learn how Madonnas were done. The experience left his Protestant nature cold; he preferred the brawling uncertainties of the North, and the moralizing surrealism of his Flemish forerunner, Hieronymus Bosch (TIME, Sept. 15). Before he died in 1569, Bruegel was to paint a series of complicated masterpieces in oil, but he got his start working from and for the market place, selling his engravings cheap. His horny-handed customers were bound to appreciate pictured proverbs like The Hay Runs After the Horse (symbolizing...
...good thing for you. It was a very good maneuver. The movie? I didn't like it." Of Spellbound: "I was lousy." Of The Yearling: "I would have liked the picture better with its Walt Disney aspects pushed into the background. It was much too lushly done, and we have to take part...
...wondering what you think is the big job we boys and girls have to face up to." Replied beautiful Barbara Jo: "I think we've got to find a way to lasting peace. I don't know how. . . . But it's got to be done...