Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From President Alvaro Obregón of Mexico they got a pledge: exemption from military service and oath taking, permission to educate their children as they wished and to conduct their economic affairs in their own way. From the vast Terrazas ranch in Chihuahua they bought more than 200,000...
Promised Lands. The trouble stems from the Mennonites' prolific growth (girls marry at puberty, bear ten or twelve children). The 15,000 settlers have overrun their original 200,000 acres and an additional 100,000 more bought a few years ago. Alarmed, the Chihuahua government and the Mexican landowners...
"You Are a Traitor." The break between Gauguin and Bernard came when Gauguin proclaimed himself, in Bernard's words, "the chief of the symbolist school in painting," and Bernard felt that he had been betrayed. Years after the event Bernard recalled that his indignant sister tackled Gauguin in the...
Menderes immediately introduced a bill restoring the lost province. Then his budget sailed through-opposed by Inonu's followers, but with such decorum and restraint as the Assembly had not witnessed in years. Last week, at a party congress in Izmir, Inonu saluted Menderes' pledge as "the beginning...
This was the most unequivocal pledge of British willingness to cooperate in "building Europe" ever made by a Briton in office. Eagerly, the 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (every Western European nation save Spain and Finland) agreed to hammer out concrete plans for the Free Trade...