Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lazy Louts. Committee members protested that the bill had been railroaded through after only seven minutes' discussion and with no hearings at all. Cried Wisconsin's Republican John Byrnes: "This legislation is dishonest ... In ten years, our veterans will be shouldering half the nation's tax burden ... I am unalterably opposed to this bill. It is no hot potato as far as this member is concerned...
...strike of Buenos Aires newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21) was no nearer settlement; it threatened, in fact, to spread across the nation. Despite the continued absence of newspapers, most portenos had heard-by word of mouth-all about the army's demand that Juan Peron keep his blonde wife out of public life. Evita was back at her desk in the Secretariat of Labor & Social Welfare. One night she appeared to accept the cheers of a Peronista union members' rally. But for once, she made no speech...
...weeks of day & night sessions by Peron's new National Economic Council had done little to stem the nation's tide of red ink. As a last resort, the council decided that Argentina would just have to borrow a lot of dollars. But from whom? With Argentines already owing U.S. businessmen an estimated $400 million, private U.S. banks were unlikely to put up any more. Nor was the World Bank, which Argentina had steadily snubbed, or the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
Overcoming All. What Queen Mary and so many other visitors admired last week was the new National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, the biggest collection of sporting art in the world. The collection, half a million pounds' worth of paintings and prints, and the ?400,000 mansion (renamed Hutchinson House) which housed them had been presented to the British nation. The bestowal had been made, as the gallery's catalogue said, by "Mr. Walter Hutchinson, the famous master-publisher, master-printer and sportsman, who has overcome all difficulties, and now stands before the public as a princely...
...list was Georgia Tech. One man from Tech heatedly denied that the team was worried about the trip to Lexington. Said he in a slow drawl: "We adore playing them, because when they get beat they take it so hard." But Kentucky, currently ranked No. i by the nation's sportwriters' poll,* hadn't lost a home game in seven years. Down went Georgia Tech...