Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rise & Fall. Even the highpressure labor-attachè program had failed to get results. With special expense accounts and special credentials from President Peròn, the attaches (who were sent to 50 countries) were usually the fanciest spenders and most zealous propaganda-pushers at any Argentine embassy. It was a labor attache who thought up the stunt of having Eva Peròn send clothing to needy Washington schoolchildren. Scores of labor leaders were sent on paid-up junkets to see the New Argentina. But the drive to build up a Peronista hemispheric labor federation came to nothing...
Sure Cure. Since the military junta of General Manuel Odria took over Peru last fall, the government has been worried about the public effects of coca-chewing. In desperation, it finally renewed an old plea to the U.N. Economic and Social Council to send a commission to work on the problem. Callao's international operators speeded up their shipments to clear out big inventories. But domestic dealers were unworried. Said one: "If you're poor, you're hungry. Pichicato fixes that. If you're rich, you want an aphrodisiac. Pichicato fixes that...
...Founder William Barton Rogers scribbled in his diary: "Organized the School! Fifteen students entered. May not this prove a memorable day!" Rogers, a former professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia, began his school in one room of Boston's shabby Mercantile Building. By the following fall, he had a faculty of ten (including Harvard's future president Charles W. Eliot); by the time he died 17 years later, in the middle of a commencement speech, M.I.T. was well...
...hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been Nelson's worst enemy, but who wrote instead: "God bless him, and shame fall on those who do not say amen...
...Guthrie, third string lineman for one month last fall, has been signed by the Chicago Bears of the National Football league, it was announced Friday...