Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honduras is ruled by massive President Tiburcio Carias, whose gorilla-like arms in their prime could break a rifle in two. He started as a revolutionist in 1892, attained the presidency in 1933. Hated by his people, he is on excellent terms with the U.S. fruit companies which dominate the economy of his country. Up to now he has quelled every revolt...
...Note: "Strange Fruit in Cambridge...
...complete lack of incentive for action, for preparation, for desire; and the only thing which moves them all is a feverish eagerness to make quick money without great responsibility or work. The whole country is one great market in which all try to make immediate profits: the fruit dealer who gives you ten rotten peaches instead of twelve good ones; the speculator who buys needed products cheap, hoards them, makes them scarce, and sells them at high prices; the Comisariato [Board of Price Administration]-intended to lower prices-which works in league with the speculators. . . . And the prices...
...blood) and we spent about a week there being entertained royally and well. Then we got another plane across the Tien Shan Mountains to Kuldja in the Hi Valley in a regular land of milk and honey, where we gorged ourselves on chicken and beef and white rolls and fruit...
Four cops, warned in advance, followed chubby Critic Bernard DeVoto into a Cambridge, Massachusetts bookstore. So did a Civil Liberties Union lawyer. Then followed a neatly planned little routine. Critic DeVoto asked for a copy of Lillian Smith's Southern novel, Strange Fruit, which had been suppressed by Boston booksellers and banned by Cambridge's police chief for mixing a stubby Anglo-Saxon word into a serious study of miscegenation (TIME, April 10). For his $2.75, Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking...