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...United Nations middle class and workers' population blazed into action. None knew yet what the coup meant, but many believed that a democratic revolution was at hand. Axis and pro-Axis newspaper buildings were stoned. Extemporaneous speeches were made on street corners and from atop coffee tables. Fourteen busses and streetcars were damaged and leaking gasoline set afire. The cry "Viva la Democracia" echoed through the streets. A checkup found 40 killed...
...Philharmonic earlier this season, he wasted no time in following the precedent which he had previously used in his first days in Cleveland, and which had been laid down earlier and even more dramatically by Koussevitsky in his first years in Boston. At any rate, when the smoke cleared, fourteen members of the orchestra, including Michel Piastro, the concertmaster, had been effectively purged, and all efforts to force the Board of Trustees or Rodzinski to re-engage them for another season had, for unknown reasons, weakly faded away. The Philharmonic has, until this year, usually given only a series...
...Fourteen errors, eight by Harvard and six by the Bulldogs, made Saturday's game a wide open affair, and 24 basehits splattered to all parts of the diamond...
There ware fourteen of these chaplains, who are doing a splendid job in ministering to the spiritual needs and building morale in the Home Guard organizations, who presented themselves at the School to struggle with the almost impossible task of assimilating in two short days a course that is already over-crowded covering a period of one month of regular school...
...renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act, initiated during the Great Depression to revive our economy and to relieve the economic nationalism which had contributed so greatly to the causes of World War I and the failure of the peace that followed. The third of President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" had been "the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations." But later events served only to mock his effort to eliminate the economic causes of war. The United States resisted with firm Republican resolution...