Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue to exercise the power of national government," preambles the D.A.C.'s pile of campaign planks. It lays down a hard line against President Eisenhower's personal peace campaign ("Good-will tours are an inadequate substitute for solid policies"), attacks Administration defense policy ("The Republicans believe money to be more important than military security"), calls for a full-speed drive into space. It slams the anti-inflation policy ("Age-old affinity for the moneyed interests"), scores the prolonged steel strike ("A failure in executive leadership"), calls for prosperity for farmers ("The social institutions of many of our rural...
...Afro-Asian nations at Bandung. China's Premier Chou En-lai urged that Chinese abroad "be loyal to the countries they live in." The disenchantment was mutual. Hua-chiao students returned from China complaining of hardships under the Reds. The relatives back home saw little of the money that had been sent them, and sneaked out bitter reports about the communes...
...When the Japanese attacked the Philippines, Lewin, no man to duck a fight, enlisted and was captured on Bataan. At the Cabanatuan prison camp he proved his organizing ability by setting up a food delivery from outside that kept the P.W.s from starvation and the Japanese guards in pin money...
Back in Manila, proudly wearing MacArthur's Medal of Freedom, Lewin opened a cabaret and became the city's leading sports promoter (including the world's bantamweight boxing championship match in 1947). But he hit the really big money with a gambling joint called the Key Club off Manila's Dewey Boulevard. He was also a generous spender who won friends by donating $15,000 to a polio clinic and giving freely to orphans, lepers, war refugees...
Governor's Option. With both Zik and the Sardauna against him, Awolowo, despite the most money and the best organization, trailed badly. As the ballots were counted, the Sardauna's North swung ahead of Zik, but if no one got a clear majority, it would be left to the discretion of Governor General Sir James Robertson to name the nation's first head of state...