Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aristocratic Whack. In his Swiss villa at Lausanne, handsome, non-hemophilic Don Juan Charles Teresa Silvere Alphonse, Prince of the Asturias, Count of Barcelona, and pretender to the throne vacated by his late father Alfonso XIII, judged the time ripe for a manifesto to the people. Proclaimed Don Juan...
...Communists got away first. They plastered Paris billboards with copies of a 500-word manifesto addressed to women: "Unite for war! Unite behind the Government! All for unity!" But party strategists were worried. Their new, pro-Government line (TIME, Feb. 12) had lost followers. Last week they announced a modification of their program. Like the Socialists, they said, they now stood for a limited nationalization program...
...year sentence to the state penitentiary for embezzlement.) Last week another L.S.U. controversy raged over the issue of campus kissing. Tall, leonine President William Bass ("William the Conqueror") Hatcher had frowned on good-night kisses. Pretty Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked an alumnus, mindful also of L.S.U.'s slipping cultural standards: "It looks like the old school is headed for cow-college status...
...Rancid Odor. Bennett Clark began with the MacLeish prose. In his husky voice he read aloud from MacLeish's Preface to an American Manifesto: "The great American capitalist and his son and his daughter-in-law and his banking system might well have been chosen for hatefulness. ..." What, demanded the Senator, did that mean...
...manifesto was also a slap at Argentina, for Morínigo and the soldier politicians around him were a smudged carbon copy of Argentina's military Government. Unidad National, Argentine underground newspaper, claimed that Vice President Juan Domingo Perón had made a secret agreement with Paraguay's militarists, looking toward a "total customs union" with Argentina. The manifesto was a hint that the Paraguayan people might have something to say about that. The move would reduce Paraguay to an Argentine dependency, tend to bolster her unpopular military government...