Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexicans took it hard. They protested when workmen dragged Cuauhtémoc from his perch, moved in on the Statue of Columbus (see cut). Their resentment grew when they learned that the Paseo would have a two-foot strip down the middle, planted to nopal and cactus. "These are the...
But 44-year-old Ralph Bunche did not mention his most compelling reason. As an Assistant Secretary of State he would be one of the top Government officials in Washington. But as a Negro, he would be barred from most restaurants, hotels and clubs in Washington. Bunche had gotten his...
Walter learned of his brother's injury from a radio bulletin as he was riding home from a union session, accompanied by two bodyguards, in the armored car the union recently bought for him. At Redford Receiving Hospital he comforted 37-year-old Vic while the doctors pumped four...
Said one striker: "The Communists say that we are gangsters, but they've been shooting and I've been picketing. It's time they learned the difference."
Miller, who specialized in congressional relations and economic conferences on his first tour at State, was born in Puerto Rico, learned Spanish as a boy in Cuba. He picked up fair Portuguese during wartime years as the Rio embassy's expert on seized Axis property. Miller's views...