Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toilers Are Told. Fortnight ago, Rakosi made a major speech before his Communist Party. Hungarian peasants cocked an ear; since the war they had divided up the large farms among themselves (with the blessings of the Communists) and were well pleased. Rakosi's speech jolted them. He deplored the fact that Hungarian agriculture today is "based on the split-up little peasant holdings." He even used the dreaded word "kolkhoz" -collective farm. The peasant press gingerly expressed anxiety...
...advice of everyone in the profession, she carried the case through three courts, at a cost of $13,000 of her own money and a year and a half of her time, during which no studio would employ her. She won the case. For going to war against a major studio (had she lost, it might have ended her career), Olivia has remained something of a Hollywood Joan...
...nurse for every 40, one attendant for every eight, an outlay of at least $5 a day per patient for food, care and treatment. Says Deutsch: "Not a single state mental hospital in the U.S. meets, or has ever met, even the minimum standards set by A.P.A. in all major aspects of care and treatment." The current average in state mental hospitals, he says, is $1.25 a day per patient...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Charles Munch conducts Liszt's Concerto No. 2 in A Major. Piano soloist: Robert Casadesus...
...literary criticism, the ambitious new "American Men of Letters" series began a restudy of the country's major writers with Joseph Wood Krutch's well-balanced Henry David Thoreau and Emery Neff's Edwin Arlington Robinson. In Nathaniel Hawthorne: the American Years, Robert Cantwell gave an unorthodox interpretation and filled in the background of Hawthorne's time with a rich mass of detail. Randall Stewart's Hawthorne was a more conventional biography...