Word: independente
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Also beyond the budget are uncounted hundreds of other expenditure bills-everything from a crossroads postoffice on up. Biggest of the independent bills is the veterans' pension plan which Mississippi's John Rankin rammed through the House; the VA estimates it would cost an average of $1.4 billion...
The threat never came off. St. Laurent, a French Canadian, proved the perfect answer to the cardinal rule of Canadian politics: never lose the French vote. French-speaking Quebec went Liberal almost 100%. (In Montreal, the only nonLiberal candidate elected was mammoth Mayor Camillien Houde, who ran as an independent...
Ever since his rise to power, President Juan D. Perón has been taking potshots at Buenos Aires' independent La Prensa. Last week he fired a broadside. "For a hundred years, "the President told a railway union congress, "La Prensa has pontificated with endless lies and imbecilities."
Campbell's formal training consists of one course in astronomy in his senior year in high school; he did not go to college. But he had so much enthusiasm for astronomy that when he was offered a job as "dome assistant" at the observatory a year later (1899), he...
If the Liberals had any fears that Drew's campaigning would have a similar effect on them, they failed to show it. The only thrust that seemed to worry them was the argument being used against St. Laurent in his home province of Quebec. Tory campaigners charged that St...