Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Tom Pendergast got his grip on the city administration, its seamy side got much more national attention than its solid core of respectability and its increasing commercial importance. During Pendergast's reign, the town was a free-&-easy capital of grifters, gamblers, gangsters and striptease grinders. In no other city in the U.S. were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself...
What if Western Union involves a common currency? The mutual abolition of tariffs? The free movement of workers from one country to another, as jobs may be available? In the survey, a majority of Europeans with opinions declare that they are ready for such limitations on national sovereignty. Enthusiasm varies, country by country, on these points: Frenchmen (whose tradition is to stay at home) are not quite so willing to open the doors to migrant foreign labor as Italians (whose tradition includes working abroad). Britons are not so anxious to merge the pound sterling with continental currencies; they are reluctant...
...think it is most important to have? 1) The right to say or write what one believes without fear of punishment? 2) The right to work at any job one chooses? 3) Protection from unreasonable interference by police? 4) The right to vote in a fair and free election to decide who shall govern the country? 5) The right to private ownership of business...
...years since Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto espoused "an open, legalized community of women," few subjects have been more frequently disputed by Marxists. Lenin, in one of his sharpest departures from Marxism, vehemently rejected "free love" on the ground that "love is more than drinking a glass of water." But Alexandra Kollontay, who instituted the Soviet system of easy divorce in 1917, was called "Russia's only real Communist" because of her advocacy of free love...
When Strong Man Fulgencio Batista's candidate lost the presidency to hollow-eyed Ramon Grau San Martin in 1944's free elections, Batista promptly and discreetly took a plane for Miami. Since then, backed by a jumbo-sized bank roll, he has sat out a pleasant exile in some of the New World's toniest suites...