Word: groups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning, Chiang Kai-shek's Douglas Skymaster eased down onto the runway of Canton's Milky Way airport. The Gimo, wearing a jungle-green uniform, stepped out waving his sun helmet. It was his first visit to Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed...
...airport, Nehru refused a closed car, chose an open model in which, standing erect all the way, he rode through eight miles of churning crowds. In the Shambazaar district, a group of youths shouted, "Traitor Nehru," and threw shoes at him, the ultimate Indian insult...
...imperialists-with only 16 million inhabitants?" asked Juan Perón last week in mock amazement. "We haven't gone crazy yet," he added. Argentina's President was assuring a group of Brazilian newsmen that he had no designs on his neighbors. "It has been said that we want to resurrect the old viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [which included Uruguay, Paraguay and part of Bolivia]. When they say that, I always say: 'We have lots of land and we don't need any more...
...cheapest grade of cooking oil shot up from 17? to 38? a liter (current Manhattan price: 47? a qt.). In Buenos Aires good sirloin steak that had cost 18? a Ib. the day before sold for 28? (Manhattan price: 79?). A housewives' group called on Congressmen, persuaded anti-Perón deputies to introduce a resolution to investigate the high cost of living...
Last week, the regents told how they would enforce the law. Henceforth, every board of education in the state will make an annual investigation of all teachers and other employees, then report to the regents. Any employee found to be disloyal or a member of a "subversive group" will be tried, and if found guilty, fired. First reports will be due on Oct. 31. The regents promised to have a master list of subversive groups ready in September...