Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan took just as warmly to Alemán as Washington, but its weather was bad. A misty rain fell. Bareheaded, Alemán smiled through hours of parading up & down the island in an open car. Wall Street gave him a soggy version of its traditional ticker-tape ovation; Mexicans, in native costumes, lined the streets. At City Hall, he was made an honorary citizen. At Columbia University, he received an honorary LL.D...
...shrinking under the mechanized wonders of the war. He was the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee and as such assumed a burden of responsibility; he held earnest conversations with Cordell Hull. Then came the unprecedented policy meeting of Republican leaders held in September 1943, at Mackinac Island, Mich. At that conference Vandenberg produced the word "participation," which expressed the determination of the great majority of Republican Party leaders to stay in world affairs after...
...cineraria and the harsh Red Flag that really bloomed in Rome. By May Day, 1947, the worldwide Communist Party had much to celebrate. Its latest and in some ways its most remarkable victory was in Sicily's free and fair elections, where the Communists last week became the island's leading party, and thus consolidated their position as the strongest political force in Italy...
...fascist Spain-simply because the U.S. (which husband Juan Peron is currently wooing) might view the trip dimly? Did not Bramuglia and those other Dutch uncles know about the plans? How she would fly in a special four-motored transport, escorted by two Argentine army planes, to the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha? How Spanish flyers would meet her there and take her to Madrid with full military honors...
...Long Island (where new construction is only 20% of last year's) builders who begrudge paying commissions are willy-nilly turning their houses over to brokers. Houses are still selling fast in parts of the South and in Los Angeles (average price: $12,620). But in Dallas the News one day last week carried almost 18 columns of classified ads of houses for sale. Builders were still trying to sell houses, not rent them, though the housing situation was still as bad as ever. In San Francisco, Advertising Executive Kay Daly, 26, used a billboard to help her find...