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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
...took charge of a study hall at Centennial High School, I thought I was in a bear garden. . . .* I have met rudeness and lack of control here more than anywhere else in the world [she has taught in England, India and Australia]. In America the child seems to govern the school, instead of school authorities governing the child...
Three principles should govern a new national labor policy, he thinks. First, disputes should be settled as far as possible by collective bargaining; he rejects the idea of labor courts rendering arbitrary decisions. Second, Government should stay out of labor disputes except where the lawful rights of individuals or the interests of the public are paramount. Third, all parties should be given equal justice, made equally responsible under...
...Indonesians govern themselves? Says Correspondent Sherrod: "They have done surprisingly well, and with some assistance-Dutch or otherwise-I think they can. Van Mook says the Indonesians have matured more in the past five years than in the previous...
John White explored the Virginia coast in 1585, and two years later Sir Walter Raleigh sent him back to found and govern a colony. He sailed back to England with watercolors of American butterflies, turtles, and of an Indian tomb-temple on stilts, decorated with the skins and bones of ten mummified chiefs. When he returned to Virginia three years later, the colony had vanished...