Word: res
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French political marriages were breaking up. At the town hall of Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...
...presiding Judge Louis Noguères made an interesting discovery: the missing eleven were all Communists. He scratched his beard, then phoned No. 2 French Communist Jacques Duclos. "Duclos," he said, "do you know why the Communist deputies on my jury have not arrived?" Replied Duclos: "But yes. They have not arrived because they are not coming...
Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who gets well paid for opening his mouth very wide, keeps a careful record of the occasions on which he opens his mouth. By consulting his notebook, the great Dane can point to 209 Tristans, 171 Walküres, 143 Tannhäusers, 125 Siegfrieds, 101 Götterdämmerungs and Lohengrins, say when & where he sang them and how much he got paid. Says he: "I have done a quarter of a million dollars worth of Tristans since 1930. Also 3,340 English pounds, 3,200 reichsmarks, 332,000 francs, and 4,000 Danish kroner...
Tomato Surprise. In Newark, an alarmed inmate of the Ivy Hills Alms House summoned four fire engines, a res cue squad, and two hook-&-ladder trucks to a sunny field blazing with ripe, red tomatoes...
...Constitution: "to promote the general welfare." The section on purposes and principles, greatly strengthened, declares one of the organization's purposes to be the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, "without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion." But this section contains a serious res ervation: except where an actual breach of international peace has occurred or is imminent, the United Nations may not intervene in matters "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction" of a member nation...