Word: downtowne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weekend before the revolt, Perón's feud with the church reached a crescendo. Defying a government ban, 100,000 Catholics gathered in front of the cathedral on the Plaza de Mayo, then paraded through the downtown streets. The government labeled the marchers "vandals," accused them of burning an Argentine flag. At midweek, Perón ordered two high-ranking Argentine prelates - Bishop Manuel Tato and Monsignor Ramón Pablo Novoa -expelled from the country on the ground that they had incited the flag-burners. The following day came the Vatican excommunication...
Sunday a mob attacked the Metropolitan Cathedral in downtown Buenos Aires hurling stones and fruit while it chanted "Long live Perón, down with the Pope." As a priest sang a Mass inside, a crowd gathered on the steps of the cathedral while opponents hurled stones and rotten fruit and fired a few shots. The crowd answered, "Long live Christ the King." When the faithful were at last driven from the steps, the mob stoned the win dows of the Episcopal Palace. Perón rushed to his office, ordered all outdoor religious activities suspended...
...publisher of the monthly Farm Journal, biggest farm magazine in the U.S. (circ. 2,870,380), Graham Patterson had an office ideally located to keep an eye on his closest competitor. Right across Philadelphia's downtown Washington Square, he looked into the offices of the Curtis Publishing Co., owner of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, Jack and Jill and the monthly Country Gentleman, second biggest farm magazine in the U.S. (circ. 2,566,314). Publisher Patterson enjoyed the view but not the competition. Last week he found a way to keep one and eliminate the other...
That sign heralded a revolution of sorts in Kansas City, Mo. Ever since World War II, the city's colored population has been busting out of the downtown area recognized as the "Negro district." The pattern was familiar and explosive: panic sales by white residents, mass meetings, homemade bombs, a few fast-buck real-estate men cashing in on the white flight from Negro neighbors. Few liked to talk about it in public, but one Sunday Pastor Sturgess brought the subject out into the light. "Whether it be a matter of selling one's home or fleeing...
...have spent the night sleeping on a park bench to get in the right mood. Young George Bellows took to haunting Sharkey's Athletic Club across the street, and was soon turning out prizefighting scenes that set shocked New York critics back on their heels. John Sloan roamed downtown Manhattan's streets and bars, finding there the storytelling incidents that made him the Big City's first big painter...