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There are many signs of liberalism in the structure of the Korean government. When elected, Rhee offered a 27-point program guaranteeing economic and social democracy as well as political democracy. The Assembly passed a land-reform act which provided for the sale of 90% of all landlord-owned farms to their tenants, who were to pay 20% of their annual crop for 15 years Rhee's democratic program was spelled out in the Korean constitution, and the land-reform act is now law. But these reforms have not been carried out because of the war, Rhee claims...
...Michael Molloy; produced by Michael Grace) is about as Irish as plays come-even out of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre. It is a gaudily romantic period piece about a homely 18th Century shillelagh fighter who turns up in the west of Ireland just as a great landlord is about to seize a pretty young peasant girl for his pleasure. When the girl (Maggie McNamara) pretends love for the brawny shillelagh-swinging Dowd (Walter Macken), he cheerfully whips the landlord's entire press gang. But though Dowd eventually wins the girl's love, the landlord schemes...
Master: Psychiatrist and Landlord...
...Sila Project, was arguing heatedly with Michele Verardi. Tigano had ordered a gang to cut through a garden which Verardi rents from Baron Giulio Berlin-gieri. On the map (and all old inhabitants of Santa Severina confirmed this) a municipal road once ran through the garden. Through the years, Landlord Berlingieri's tenants had advanced little by little onto the road so that it gradually became part of the baronial property...
Finally Verardi blustered: "I'll go up to the village and call down the landlord's agent. You've always bowed your back to him. Do you think you need not bow any more? Fools, you're getting too close to a bear that has always hugged...