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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month Garry Davis came to Trouillas. Fabrégas introduced him to the village's bright-eyed mayor, Gaston Méric. Davis had trouble understanding Méric's Catalan dialect, and Méric had trouble understanding Davis' French; but ideas percolated back & forth. Said the mayor, after Davis had gone: "I felt sure he was a nut. I'm still not sure he isn't. But maybe that's what we need to have peace...
...Méric was admitting in his proud CataIan way that he had been converted. When word of this reached the villagers, converts flocked in by the score. The name of Garry Davis began to creep into almost every conversation about the price of grapes and apricots. The mayor dreamed up the idea of declaring Trouillas to be world territory, and sprang it on the council one day when seven of 13 councilors were present. The seven were a quorum, and every one was in favor...
...been 200 years since the birth of Philosopher-Poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. To the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins, 1949 seemed like a perfect time for calling attention to a "consciousness of moral responsibilities, liberty, and the dignity...
...whole U.S. crop, the Department of Agriculture, which estimated it at 1,336,976,000 bushels in June, this week revised it down to 1,188,690,000. One of Chicago's ace wheat forecasters, C. M. Galvin, trimmed his own previous estimates by 153 million bushels...
...Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hagerstown, Md., Chairman J. Carlton Ward Jr., 56, last week called his stockholders' meeting to order. Thin and grey as a timber wolf, Ward seemed calm, but he had good reason to be nervous. Before him sat Sherman M. Fairchild, 53, the company's founder and onetime president, who had come to Hagerstown sworn to kick Ward...