Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the exemption increase out of the way, the House passed, by a rousing 339-to-80 vote, the massive tax-reform bill (TIME, Jan. 25 et seq.) of New York's Representative Dan Reed, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. It went to the Senate, where Republican leadership has been a sorry joke. It was generally conceded that the Senate would vote to raise tax exemptions...
...three years ago, swart young Gaspare Pisciotta was the close friend and trusted lieutenant of Sicily's most notorious bandit chieftain, Salvatore Giuliano (TIME, July 17, 1950 et seq.). Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Mario Scelba, who was then Italy's Interior Minister, Giuliano was killed and Pisciotta captured. At his trial, the boastful bandit lieutenant proudly admitted that it was he who had told the police where to find Giuliano, that it was he and not the police who fired the fatal bullet into the bandit's body. The confession earned him no forgiveness...
...troubles were an old story to Church of Christ missionaries, who have been trying since 1949 to win Italian converts. Though the postwar Italian constitution recognizes freedom of religion, non-Catholic congregations have to get licenses from the police. The Church of Christ missionaries (TIME, Sept. 29, 1952 et seq.) have had continuing trouble getting and keeping licenses...
...this show of crashing unanimity, one M.P. was conspicuously absent: Milovan Djilas, the purged and disgraced Vice President who had gabbled too much about the rigid Marxism and flexible love lives of his fellow top Communists (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.). "Political pornography," one of his critics called it. Djilas sent word that he had resigned his seat. To succeed him as Assembly President, the members last week unanimously elected Mosa Pijade, 64, a gnomelike little man whose friendly, avuncular air (covering the steely core of a seasoned revolutionist) has earned him the nickname Cica (uncle). He joined the Communist...
RUSSIA, which recently puzzled financial experts by selling gold (TIME, Nov. 15 et seq.), has now added a mystery for commodity men. Though short of sterling, the Reds have just made a deal with a British firm to buy 50,000 tons of refined sugar, the biggest such sale in more than 20 years, at a time when Russia's satellites are exporting sugar...