Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ubico's famous Ley de Probidad (Law of Honesty) requires officials to register their property on taking office, explain each new acquisition. It has undoubtedly enforced a kind of terrified probity among underlings, but it has one flaw: in practice, it does not apply to Ubico. On becoming President, he declared himself worth $89,000. Now he owns 75,000 acres, is the largest individual landholder in Guatemala. Much of his property is valuable coffee and sugar land. He lists his acquisitions under the Ley de Probidad at ludicrous valuations. No one dares to challenge his figures...
...Jones's wife can sleep at night when KFBB finally tells her that Farmer Jones is safe in town and not freezing on some snowy butte. Most of the rural schools have radios, and warnings like the following are a winter commonplace: "The teacher at the Pleasant Val ley school should not let the children start for home this afternoon because the roads are blocked," or "The children of Pleasant Valley school are safe. . . ." Tickets, Please. Such personal messages are sent free by the station. To send one, KFBB, a CBS affiliate, will break into a commercial broadcast sometimes...
Announced the Nazis' Brussels radio: "The Strength Through Joy movement will celebrate its tenth anniversary today with a dancing festival in Berlin." Unhappily for bumptious, bottle-worn Robert Ley, the tenth anniversary of his beloved movement coincided with Berlin's blitz (see p. 30). Undaunted, the Labor Front leader took to the radio. Said he: "There is one particular thought that could drive me crazy-the thought that these war criminals of London, Washington and Moscow hinder...
...starve. The German bread ration was recently increased. Yet the black market continues to flourish. One of Germany's sorest shortages is in housing. Nazi figures admit that 6,953,000 people (about 9% of the prewar population) have been bombed out or evacuated. Labor Chief Robert Ley said last week that bombs had destroyed 2,000,000 rooms in homes. The solutions so far found have been dismally inadequate. Resettled bomb victims, crowded into strangers' homes or into unsanitary new shacks, call themselves "the Führer's guests...
...Kansas City-born Robert Russell Bennett, Vienna-born Hans Spialek, New Jersey-born Don Walker. To these three has recently been added Oklahoma-born Ted Royal, who specializes in hot jazz arrangements. These four do most of their work in the offices of one of Tin Pan Al ley's biggest song publishers, Chappell & Co. Their average job of musicomedy tailoring takes about two weeks...