Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genoa claims the birth of Christobal Colon, so do six other towns. Columbus' early life is wrapped in obscurity. Says Wassermann: he told conflicting tales about his origins, his early experiences. "He was as morose as a monk, crafty as a peasant, without a glimmer of humor-a character unrelieved by a single ray of cheerfulness. A man of sighs and lamentations, misery and gloom. But for all that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing...
...commercial films of any kind are shown, no drama, slush or comedy. Instead the peasant whose plow is wood gapes at steel tractors and harvesting machines, sees for the first time whirring factory wheels and great steamers breasting seas beyond his ken. Peasant women are shown "model homes," see babies washed as babies should be washed, even in one film reserved for married women, watch babies come as babies should come...
Ticklish in the extreme were two vital problems faced and dealt with last week by beady-eyed Professor Julius Maniu, peasant-born Prime Minister of Rumania...
Political Stride. Elderly, harassed Michael Ivanovich Kalinin is the puppet-President of Russia, a peasant-born figurehead (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Some 150,000,000 peasants hope that he defends their interests in proletarian councils of the Kremlin. He tries to. But last week he was obliged to pledge his support to a policy most peasants hate, the project to exterminate the kulak or "moneyed peasant" as a class (TIME, Jan. 13). Just now this is the thing closest to the heart of cold, quiet Dictator Josef Stalin, the arch-proletarian who is also making Russia stride...
...peasant's son from Bavaria. One was a Prussiafi volunteer, who always made it a point of pride to stand the painful treatments a little longer than any of his comrades; he was also invincible at chess. One was a boy from Westphalia; the fourth was an English prisoner. Once they were joined by a fifth, Fürlein, who had no wound but had lost his voice and could hardly breathe. Suspicious of him at first, the Whistlers soon made him one of them, and were overjoyed when the time came for his operation and the insertion...