Word: places
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists who at first had supported him. To the press, he issued photographs of himself and his handsome family, like any Western politician; recently, he urged his extremist followers to accept the agreement signed last month at The Hague, which set up the U.S.I, and assigned it a place as equal partner with the former mother country in the new Netherlands-Indonesian Union (TIME, Nov. 14). After a lot of fiery oratory which denounced The Hague deal for making too many concessions to the Dutch, the Republican Parliament duly ratified...
...this took place because of an old Spanish custom brought up to date. For years, Venezuelan employers gave their workers a Christmas aguinaldo, an annual bonus, sometimes amounting to as much as two weeks' pay. In 1936, President Eleazar Lopez Contreras turned the aguinaldo principle into law. He decreed that employers must split 10% of their profits among their workers...
...week, some 100 students huddled in the rain, waiting for the voice that would soon come through the loudspeaker. Inside Bovard Auditorium, 1,500 more waited in their seats. Finally, Professor Frank C. Baxter, dressed in a 20-year-old dark blue suit, mounted the podium and took his place behind a-lectern piled with books. As the murmuring and chattering stopped, the professor began to read...
Hendl believes both that "Bach should be heard more," and that "Jazz and show music contain examples which . . . can only be called good music . . . and will find a permanent place in our musical culture." Hendl plans to serve his listeners a menu made up 65% of old masters, 35% of new music or music new to Dallas...
Three of the four patients had had no relapses or reinfections since their history-making treatment with penicillin. The fourth had had reinfections, but had been cured again. Concluded Dr. Arnold: "These four men have all married, have children, and have taken a respectable place in the life of the community...