Word: educatee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noisy, arrogant Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's would-be Dictator who lately rallied 100,000 Cuban peasants to his side with the highly original slogan of a "9% sugar tax to educate Cuban children"' (TIME, Dec. 28), was crowing and preening himself last week as never before.
It was of no interest to him that President Miguel Moriano GÓmez y Arias was pushing through the Cuban Senate yet another radical constitution. Batista's concern was to harangue Cuba's peasants, farmers, canefield workers, sugar growers and the like, about his own pet form...
Long before Actor Gielgud and Actress Lawrence had returned their mounts to the Ben Hur Livery Stables and the Ball was over, a small gentleman in evening clothes, Beaux-Arts' Board Chairman Ely Jacques Kahn, knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on...
How to keep out of war is at best a complicated problem. Economic rivalry, racial and class hatred, propaganda of powerful interests, and the shibboleth of "national honor", all combine to warp the individual's judgment, especially in times of tension. The effect a single person can exercise in molding...
Formed in Manhattan last week was a National Committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." The Committee's plans were tentative. Said Secretary A. W. Lockwood: "Some want to educate the public to enjoy and preserve the aroma of onion, which they feel is...