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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Old Scriptural Saying. To break the stranglehold of his fellow Americo-Liberians, Tubman began what he called a "national unification policy." In 1944, for the first time, tribal Liberians got the vote and even won a few seats in the legislature, where they proved to be reliable members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Old Pro | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Illiteracy in Liberia remains at 95%, only one-quarter of the school-age population is actually attending school, and there is still such a national weakness for corruption that the President himself signs all government vouchers for more than $100. But more progress has been made in the last 15...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Old Pro | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Despite harassment by the Menderes government, Inonu, military hero of Turkey's post-World War I struggle against Greek occupation, was determined to make a political tour of the country. He had been struck and buffeted by Menderes mobs on a trip through Turkey's Aegean provinces (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Saint & the Soldier | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Proving that "order and democracy are perfectly reconcilable" is the prime aim of Venezuela's new government-no small feat with Venezuela's record for jackboot rule. But in Caracas, where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The New Orderliness | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

The choice of this road is Frondizi's own. Elected with the support of Communists and Peronistas, hailed as a man of the left, this cold realist soon concluded that he had to put an end to the labor featherbedding, price subsidizing and other self-indulgences institutionalized by Demagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Bumping Bottom | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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