Word: indigentes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Clifford Burke Harmon, 79, the world's No. 1 amateur air enthusiast, who used his real-estate millions to help indigent flyers and to found the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs (which gave the annual Harmon international air trophies); in Cannes, France.
It is a story about one of the minor U.S. minorities-California's Paisanos, the indigent descendants of the original Indians and Spanish settlers. One of them, an amiable no-good (Arturo de Cordova), is trying to make time with a young woman (Dorothy Lamour) who is interested only...
The picture has one glaring fault: it is far too fond of reproducing, by direct quotation, samples of the worst of the careful but uneven prose in which Raymond Chandler wrote the original thriller. Aside from that it handles Chandler's extremely cinemadaptable story so well that, if anything...
The Allies put a price on his head, charged him with "not having said Mass for six years, of blaspheming, of not wearing long robes ... of fornication with his mustachioed old housekeeper." He disappeared for a year, reappeared briefly in Rome on a prancing white stallion to cast his vote...
> Cherubic Calvin Benham ("Beanie") Baldwin, protege of Henry Wallace, began working at Farm Security Administration (then Resettlement Administration), in 1935. He spent $1½ billion trying to put 1½ million indigent U.S. farm families on their feet.