Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also made his bow to democracy by promising a free campaign to the badly split anti-Peronist as (Radicals, Socialists, Communists, Nationalists). When Radicals got out 70,000 people for a rally in Buenos Aires' Plaza Once, the brakes of a tramcar that had somehow been abandoned nearby were mysteriously released and the car rolled into the crowd. When anti-Peronistas tried to put up posters, they were told that the law forbade...
...Boston, the Rev. E. Harold Smith, editor of the Corpus Christi Chronicle, told the Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems that the U.S. free enterprise system was "amoral" and failed to meet the requirements of the Roman Catholic Church. The profit motive, Father Smith said, was "legitimate if kept within bounds [but] the primary purpose of an economic system is to provide a living for all and not, therefore, huge profits for the few, with some measure of what remains trickling down to the lower levels. This is the age-old traditional Catholic teaching. Unfortunately . . . even among Catholics ... it has received...
Editor Townes was asking his bosses as well as his readers. When he took over six months ago, Owners Ed and Jim Scripps had promised Townes free rein. But cautious Publisher Frank W. Power was against crusades; they might hurt business. Townes asked the Scripps Brothers to back him up. When they hedged, he quit. Last week, Townes left town. He will become general manager of the Santa Rosa (Calif.) morning Press-Democrat (circ. 10,396), the afternoon Republican (circ. 2,053) and their radio station...
Pert, plump "Merry" Geissmann, 36, daughter of a Columbus (Ohio) manual arts teacher, has several other success notes in her style book. She has designed furniture and simple dress and accessory patterns. Her biggest success was the Merry Hull "Finger-Free Glove," with three-dimensional fingers to eliminate cramping. In ten years she has collected $200,000 in royalties...
...deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then did his heart stir when moss and ivy grew green on the ruins of the towns, and under the broken tracery of vaulted cathedrals the bats fluttered in the moon. . . . Wherever the structures raised by the ordered life of man began to crumble, his brood sprang...