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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deluge came too late for Castro and thousands of others like him. When Castro got back to his hillside, he found his wife methodically collecting straw for adobe bricks. His house had dissolved, his cornpatch was gutted, his pig and ox had strayed or drowned. Last week, as the first adobe bricks for his new house were drying in the sun, he and his family hunched round an open fire eating fresh-water crabs from Lake Atitlán. But there were no tortillas. Corn could not be bought at any price...
Novelist Russell (Miracle of the Bells) Janney, juror No. 2 in the nine-month federal trial of eleven Communist leaders, went home after the trial ended, found a notice calling him to appear for jury duty...
...Century America than any other thinker of his day. He had changed the lot of U.S. schoolchildren and molded the minds of their teachers. Supreme Court justices had felt his influence and so had historians, psychologists, artists and politicians. He was the philosopher of a changing America which had found Europe's formal philosophic traditions hard to adapt to day-to-day living. As the nation grew, Dewey's philosophy had grown with it-highly practical, preaching adjustment to change, made in U.S.A...
...unknown young painter in Paris, Fernand Léger made his living retouching photographs, but he grew heartily sick of the fuzzy grey pictures he had to pretty up. A stretcher-bearer in World War I, he found a sort of solace in looking at cannons, planes and tanks. The milder beauties of nature were not for him, he decided. What he wanted his paintings to rival was the harsh power and blank precision of modern machinery...
Then the Wolverines tried hitting the line and found it just as easy to gain there. By winning, 14-7, twice-beaten Michigan took some steam out of unbeaten Minnesota's big drive toward the Western Conference championship and the Rose Bowl...