Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...Father's House. Joseph Mindszenty comes from fighters' country-the low, rolling Dunantul, on the western bank of the Danube, the rampart where for 150 years Hungarians fought the Turkish invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty...
...Swinging Low...
...Dixiecrat Daily News (circ. 31,000) of Jackson, Miss, got down to a new journalistic low in disrespect for the presidency and its fellow man. In a frontpage editorial, Editor Frederick Sullens, 71, who was once caned by Mississippi's late Governor Paul B. Johnson for his editorial attacks, damned the President's civil rights program as "mongrelization of the races." Excerpts: "The real Democratic party in Mississippi will never be dominated by renegades, lickspittles, opportunists, carpetbaggers, and deserters of the white race. And, if President Truman thinks [Mississippi Democrats] intend to meekly bow down...
Everything is free for families who cannot afford private medical care (rheumatic fever seems to be most common among low-income families). But the hospital first checks carefully to make sure that the mother is willing to accept the burden of caring for a child at home, and that the home is not overcrowded or ill-kept...