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...strike, paid vacations, pay for Sunday work, pensions, dismissal bonuses, some profit-sharing. Everyone is guaranteed the right to education, employment and health insurance. The state is given an important role in planning a national economy. The right of private property is recognized and protected; while monopoly is forbidden, capital is to be entitled to a fair return; employer associations are permitted...
...were mostly bright, flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration of the sacred Zuñi Shalako dance, but Ma-Pe-Wi, a Zia Pueblo, forbidden by his tribe to paint ceremonials, contented himself with a cocktail-bar rendering of a buffalo hunt...
...royal tooth puller, Eskelund was one of the few foreigners allowed inside the "forbidden city," where, by the somewhat purple account of his son, languished thousands of doe-eyed beauties of royal blood. Papa told Karl: "When I entered their quarters with my foot drill and instrument box . . . a whole flock of them immediately came running to greet me [with] a come-hither smile full of promise." Later, when the young dentist scaled the betel off the teeth of a native girl in Bangkok, he unwittingly started a fad for gleaming teeth. He was soon swamped with "shy little Siamese...
...appeared in last week's papers, the day before the opening night. The announced reason for the ban: the Japanese had failed to get copyright permission. But unofficially, an Allied officer told U.S. newsmen: "This is not the time for Japanese to perform The Mikado" Japanese newspapers were forbidden even to mention...
...begin beating the bushes. Some of the odd game he flushed: a healer named Percival Lemon Clark, who attacked all diseases with a "sanatology blower" that was supposed to "dry clean the entire [internal] system"; a California dentist who called himself Painless Parker (use of the word "painless" was forbidden by law); a jack of all diseases named John Paul Fernel, who designed a "sleeping brassiere," for reducing oversized busts...