Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a democratic nation scraps democratic processes, it may be because the machinery merely needs overhauling. Uruguay's trouble was a constitutional "reform" dreamed up in 1934 to keep the Government of revolutionary President Gabriel Terra from shaking apart. The new Constitution arbitrarily gave three of nine Cabinet posts and an equal division of Senators to the leading opposition party (provided, as invariably occurs, that the two leading parties together poll a majority). This law has been a thorn in the democratically elected Government of President Alfredo Baldomir...
...wealthiest men in the Army, Patton was born in San Gabriel, Calif., attended V.M.I, before he went to West Point, where he was famous for his jingles and atrocious spelling. It took him five instead of the usual four years to get through, but in his last year he was made adjutant-the second highest military honor at the Academy...
...public was also studying radio. War has sensitized many a normally numb ear to the profound difference between commentators like Mutual's Raymond Gram Swing, whose concern has been wholly with the news, and one like Mutual's $130,000-a-year Gabriel Heatter, whose soughing sanctimony and elephantine fight talk sound most appropriate when he urges the oily virtues of "my good friend, Kreml Shampoo...
Replacing MacKinney as Secretary was Endicott Peabody 2nd '42 of Utica, N. Y. and Eliot House, and a new member, Gabriel Jackson '42, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. and Leverett House, to take the place left by Keith as representative of that House...
...mouth. Dr. Silbert predicted that dicoumarin will soon be used not only as a cure for thrombi, but as a routine preventive in all major operations and confinements. At present it is used in the Mayo Clinic, the University of Wisconsin, and by Drs. Irving Sherwood Wright and Andrew Gabriel Prandoni of Columbia, who made a technical report on it last fortnight...