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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some observers took the Red peace feelers, together with the Soviet backdown at Berlin, as a symptom of a general Red retrenchment in Europe, supposedly designed to free the Reds for allout action in Asia. Porphyrogenis himself seemed to support this view. "The atmosphere of appeasement," he said, "that has developed in recent weeks on the European scene makes peace [in Greece] seem possible...
...businessman had the push & pull to make big money in Argentina, it was Alberto Dodero. The youngest and brightest of five sons of an Italian immigrant in Uruguay, he built his father's tidy little shipping business into the biggest merchant fleet in South America, became a flashy free-spending tycoon who dazzled even the free-spending Argentines. Last week, at 62, in one of the most startling moves in a full-blown career, he abdicated as shipping king...
...worth much more than the government paid for them and the fact that Don Alberto would sell at such a bargain price left Argentines breathless. Whatever the government pressure, the public could only conclude that Dodero knew when to get out. Apparently shrewd Don Alberto foresaw no future for free enterprisers like himself in Perón's Argentina...
...means of production . . . must always . . . remain the master of his economic decisions. It flows from that that his revenue is greater than that of his collaborators . . . The economy is not by nature an institution of the state; it is, to the contrary, the living product of the free initiative of individuals and of groups freely constituted...
Good Samaritan. Some of his best performances in nightclubs, which the new, more refined Berle professes to find too "smoky and noisy" for his taste, have been put on free, while Milton was a customer. Visiting a Philadelphia spot during the war after a hard day's work, he went on the floor at 3:30 a.m. and played until 6 to two customers, a janitor and some sleepy waiters. Recently, when Gypsy Rose Lee walked out on a club date at the last minute, Berle stepped in and put on a two-hour show. Last year, when...