Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Philadelphia brimmed with comedy, tragicomedy and a few dashes of pure drama. First tragicomedy came when a 42-year-old elephant named Lizzie died at the Zoo, prompting the New Dealish Record to watch for other signs of impending Republican doom. Last week Lizzie's cousin Josephine had been named official symbol of the Republican Party...
...combat totalitarianism Brazil has no democratic tradition worth the name. It is split by sectional, racial and cultural differences. About 30% of its population is white, about 5% pure Indian, 12% pure black; the rest are mixed. There is a small upper class, a smaller middle class, a large, illiterate, exploited lower class. This class has no franchise, no influence, no right of assembly, of organization, of free speech. Dictator Vargas' Estado Novo (New State), has talked loudly of bettering their lot, is still talking...
...sponsored by the big ad agency of N. W. Ayer, 35 leading commercial artists exhibited their sideline, non-advertising art. Their somewhat defiant aim: to disprove the patronizing theory that the commercial artist is "a renegade who rides in a Lincoln-Zephyr V-12," whereas an "artist" is a "pure spirit who munches crusts in a garret." Say they: "They're often one and the same person." The show's 40 items were the work of artists whose main problem is to entice consumers with dream women, seductive bathtub scenes, irresistible automobiles, travel-teasing landscapes, nostalgic farm scenes...
Nastier burns were suffered by underwriters of two issues in the U. S.'s most up-&-coming industry-aviation. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines came to the market May 27 via Smith, Barney & Co. (which is still licking the wounds left by the ill-fated Pure Oil issue in the 1937 bear market). In April Eastern had gone up above 44 on the big pre-panic move in airline stocks, early in May was still there. The new issue offered 110,909 shares to stockholders at $32 when it was around 39 on the market. Last...
...Avila Camacho, or his more conservative opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán. He is banking on a revolution and his man is believed to be General Joaquín Amaro, dark, chunky, glass-eyed ex-War Minister who is known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposición. Uncommitted politically, he is regarded by the Nazis as a Putsch possibility and convenient dark horse that could be ridden to power...