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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrested, escaped, arrested again. Premier George Tatarescu brought her to trial; Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party, helped her and publicly defended her right to free speech. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. There Ana, who had always hated sewing, became expert at embroidery, sold her own work and that of other women prisoners. During Spain's Civil War Ana, jailed in Bucharest, embroidered a scarf for La Pasionaria...
This kind of free-style spending quickly drained Argentina's postwar hoard of $1.2 billion, and IAPI got the blame for the country's financial trouble. But guilty though IAPI is of high-handed, nearsighted policies, of waste and corruption and corner-grocery bookkeeping, Perón can rightly claim that it has done much to lift Argentina from its old colonial economic status. Foreigners no longer own the railroads or the telephones. Foreign "exploiters" operate only under great handicaps. It is in terms of this sort of economic emancipation that the Peronistas defend IAPI and its works...
Bright & breezy with friends, free & easy with all comers (except subordinates, on whom he makes inordinate working demands), Pearson has a personality which would be worth thousands of votes to any politician. But he has long been loth to leave the safe berth of civil service. The cabinet post assured Pearson of a pay boost, from $15,000 to $19,000 when he gets elected to Parliament. It also assured him of a pay cut, to $6,000 as a mere M.P., should the Liberals lose control of the government, or to zero should he be defeated...
...cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt...
Board & Room. For Lujack's successor at quarterback, Leahy was counting on Frank Tripucka, a shy, skinny New Jersey senior. Like all but a few Notre Dame players (and like many other college players), 21-year-old Tripucka is "working his way through." In exchange for free room, board and tuition, he does easy campus chores (e.g., painting stadium seats) after football season is over. Last year Tripucka completed 25 passes for 422 yards (Lujack's mark: 61 for 777)-but he was not yet a Lujack at tackling, running, or field generalship...