Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masquerade party?first in the White House since President Tyler entertained for his granddaughter in 1843. Guests arrived in taxis, slipped on masks as soon as anxious Secret Service men had scanned their faces at the entrance. Unmasked but brilliant in the red and gold of a Rumanian peasant, Mrs. Roosevelt greeted each guest at the door of the East Room. After balloting for most original and clever costumes, there were songs, skits, supper?all, like the highjinks at the Gridiron dinner, strictly "off the record...
...Spanish fable, The Three Cornered Hat, Mr. Dietz has concocted a tale about a lecherous old provincial governor who lusts for the beauteous Maria, betrothed to the miller Carlos. Sample line, by the governor's lonely wife: "I know what I want Santa Claus to bring me?a Christmas peasant...
...published, the Plan promises 1,000 new schoolhouses to be completed this year. Just before leaving office, President Rodriguez announced that they had been built. Also promised by Dec. 31, are: 1) the loaning to peasants of 20,000,000 pesos, of which 6,500,000 had been loaned to 1,200 peasant organizations at 8% by last week; 2) the spending of 15% of the Federal Government's budgetary outgo for education and 3.4% for public health; 3) reform of the Labor Code to insert social insurance in addition to the minimum wage recently decreed throughout Mexico...
...According to Professor Maurice Halperin of the University of Oklahoma who testily adds: "The new landed peasant is better off than the peon in only one respect: he can starve without working, but the peon has to work while he starves." In expropriating land from private estates the Government hands the irate landlord bonds proportionate to the taxes he actually paid. Since most landlords connived with the tax-gatherers and paid less than they should, they are now neatly hoist by their own tax-dodging...
Instead of an Italian melodrama crammed with deaths, the San Francisco opera opened with Smetana's folksy Bartered Bride. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang clearly and cavorted like any plump Czech peasant girl. In the pit was bald old Alfred Hertz who conducted The Bartered Bride at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House before he went West to take over the San Francisco Symphony...