Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exemplary Misconduct. In Brockton, Mass., Mrs. Bessie P. Wixon, author of a book called Be Proud of Women, pleaded guilty to stealing $30,000 from the local women's club...
...dispassionate, objective but hardhitting assessment of the Soviet regime last fortnight (TIME, July15), Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times made one point (among many completely valid ones) which may have been slightly in error. He said: "Although they [the Soviet leaders] have access to an enormous mass of information from abroad, they lack the experience to analyze...
Salazar has never married and, until very recently, there has been no woman in his life. Several years ago he adopted two little girls. He rises at 6:30 every morning, has a roll and coffee and attends Mass, then goes to his office, where his first chore is to arrange the flowers on his desk. He works until 1 p.m. With a light lunch he has port, usually diluted, and never more than three-quarters of a glass. After lunch he rests and takes an hour's walk, sometimes with his adopted daughters, sometimes alone and unguarded...
...shared our food and our languages and our songs. The Hero of the Soviet Union staggered down a succession of station platforms demanding cucumbers for his American comrade, and he eventually got them too, heaven only knows how. The railroad man sang the bass part to the entire Easter Mass in church Slavonic, and was half way through it a second time before he fell blissfully asleep. And then there was the offensive individual from the other end of the car, who apparently felt that he was not getting his just share of attention and fired two shots from...
Alias Schacht. To the man of the field and to the great mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government...