Word: oed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WERNER ROSENFELD Sāo Paulo, Brazil...
...Problem. Did O Presidente approve the government's outlawing of the Communists? This time the pause was longer. A chicken scurried across the floor. Then: "We should have followed the example of the U.S. Communism would have got nowhere as a political party...
Last week TIME Correspondent William White called on Vargas at his farm not far from the Argentine border. White found the short-legged little man deeply tanned from days in the saddle, a picture of health at 65. O Presidente wore a faded blue shirt tucked into a gaucho's baggy blue bomachos...
...will always remember the day that I met the undertaker [of the Revolution] ... At eight o'clock in the morning we entered the offices of the Central Committee. I glanced at my fellow guests. Smirking with satisfaction, drooling with superiority, a look of pre-eminence over all other mortals . . . plastered on their faces, they might have been entering Paradise . . . Suddenly a peanut-shaped head, surmounted by a military haircut and decked off with a magnificent pair of long moustaches, rose above them . . . one hand slipped into his overcoat and the other folded behind him, a la Napoleon . . . Comrade Stalin...
Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...