Word: outsings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶At Independence, Bess Truman, like millions of other U.S. women, faced a servant problem. Vietta Garr, Negro cook who had worked 16 years for the Trumans, is now back of the counter in a Kansas City drugstore. Surveying her array of mechanical aids to soda-jerking, Vietta confessed that...
Non-Smoking Opponent. Certain to be President Vargas' chief opponent in the forthcoming elections was Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. Ascetic Bachelor Gomes, an oldtime Army man, neither smokes nor drinks. As a survivor of the bloody, gallant, but unsuccessful 1922 revolt, he is a legendary figure in Brazil. He...
Meanwhile, news from the home front stiffened opposition to any other kind of work law at all. The Mead (ex-Truman) Committee had swooped into the Norfolk Navy Yard, triumphantly brought out a report of labor surplus and waste there. Congressmen's mail told of bad management and "stretch...
Central America's politics were even more backward than its feudal economic system. For centuries the millions of illiterate Indians had been ruled by caciques or headmen. Modern caciques adopted the title of "general," set up military despotisms. Central America, which separated from Spain in 1821, fell into five...
Books that he praises, even unknowns like Rudolph Altrocchi's Sleuthing in the Stacks and Alan Kapelner's Lonely Boy Blues, became sell-outs on the Coast. The San Francisco Grabhorn Press's de luxe edition of Joaquin Murrieta, The Brigand Chief of California was sold to...