Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find Lucia Ladanca's name in TIME'S May 30 issue, you had to read most of the way through a seven-column Foreign News story on Italy. At that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
...Every bullet, every item, has been planned because of a particular need for this somewhere. If you cut it, you will not achieve some vital purpose." So Secretary of State Dean Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week in his precise and impressive manner...
Another reason for Asahi's success is the interest it takes in its readers' welfare. It underwrites orphan asylums, conducts a free tuberculosis clinic, distributes Christmas presents to the poor, supports the annual All-Japan Baseball Series, has sponsored concert tours by such foreign artists as Violinist Jascha Heifetz. In the 1923 earthquake that wrecked its own Tokyo plant, Asahi raised 2,000,000 yen ($970,000) for disaster relief...
There was a certain irony in Colonel McCormick's entry into Washington; he has always regarded anything east of Gary, Ind. as a foreign country. But there was also a practical and compelling reason for his purchase of the Times-Herald...
...senator had a practical suggestion: why not let Finland use all future payments (about $400,000 a year) to send Finnish students to the U.S. and U.S. technicians to Finland? That was much like what the U.S. had done for China after the Boxer Rebellion. Last week, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee said O.K., got the Smith resolution over its first congressional hurdle...