Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other challenge was published in Good Sense, organ of Guglielmo Giannini's L'Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...
...balding schoolteacher, Guy Mollet, and a phalanx of 60-odd associates, the left wing of the French Socialist Party rebelled against Léon Blum's moderate, anti-Communist leadership. By a vote of 2,964-to-1,363 (with 145 abstentions), the annual Party Congress rejected the Executive Bureau's activities report. General Secretary Daniel Mayer (a moderate) promptly resigned. Léon Blum pleaded with the rebels ("Participation of Communists in a government without any doubt serves the interests of Russia. It is not for us to enter into a government so that we could plant...
...Chamber of Deputies was examining the credentials of new members elected in July. Among the opposition was Accion Nacional's Antonio L. Rodríguez, big businessman from Monterrey. When his name was called, a voice from the Government side cried: "Alas for the revolution! An industrialist, a banker, an enemy of the revolution...
...coast audience could savor the bilingual ambiguities of such Sablon songs as Le Fiacre, the success story of a married woman and her lover. As they are driving about, their coach accidentally runs over the husband, who has been secretly tailing them. The wife looks out, observes: "Splendid, Léon, it's my husband. . . . Give 100 sous to the coachman...
...other hand, Dr. James L. Baggott, top Atlanta Baptist, was more friendly. Declared he: "Dr. Newton represents the Southern Baptist Convention as president in his utterances more than any other man. I would say the Convention was ninety-nine and nine-tenths percent behind...