Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states that all foreign-language posters and signs must include-in bigger type-a Spanish translation. Offenders are subject to a fine of $2.50 a day per sign. To businessmen who have festooned Panama with such slogans as Royal Crown Cola's "Best by Taste-Test," strict enforcement could be a headache. But most Panamanians seemed unimpressed. Snorted a reporter for one of Panama's newspapers (over which the commission has no control): "We common people will still ask for sanwiches, not emparedados, when we go to lonch...
...first replies to the invitations, which went to most of the Who's Who of Western Hemisphere philosophers, were anything but favorable. All Cuban and most Mexican philosophers declined. So did nine members of the American Philosophical Association, pointing out that academic freedom was nonexistent under President Juan Perón. All told, just three U.S. philosophers and half a dozen U.S. lighter-weights accepted...
...Cruz had more than verbal persuasion to work with. Perón's government had granted 600,000 pesos for expenses, and impecunious professors could thus be offered a handsome junket with all expenses paid, plus 25 pesos a day for spending money and a bonus of 2,000 pesos for reading a paper. That did the trick, and brought in many of Europe's and Latin America's philosophical bigwigs...
President Conant also praised the law's provision giving every state at least $5 per student. Wriston and that many states didn't need the money, and the $5 was like "building a lighthouse in Kansas...
Collections will begin in Adams and Lowell Houses tonight for the adoption of displaced persons to study at Harvard. The resident and non-resident members of the Houses will be asked to raise at least $1000 per House...