Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hill country north of the city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people adored and elected him. He built $200 million worth of highways, provided free textbooks for schoolchildren, lavished funds on Louisiana State University, went on to the U.S. Senate...
...President Dutra's own P.S.D. (Social Democratic Party) had splintered beneath him. In a highly significant local election last week, Fascist-minded Getulio Vargas, dictator for 15 years, and sallow Luis Carlos Prestes, the Communist he kept jailed for nine of them, had joined to get control of rich São Paulo State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia sped an Air Force plane to pick up State Governor...
Kicked out again, Octávio got along in Europe on handouts from his brother João, a rich socialist. World War II sent him, along with many another refugee, to the U.S. Friends, who found a New York hotel suite for Mangabeira, wife Esther and their two grown children, told him that the rent was $90 a month and paid the difference. He has since repaid them. Within six months, Mangabeira had picked up enough English to get a job doing translations for the Reader's Digest. Not so apt with languages was wife Esther, who sometimes...
Last week, Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and the League of Composers combined to pay tribute to Composer Ernest Bloch. Juilliard faculty members and students played his rich, rhapsodic chamber music and orchestral compositions (including the now famed Schelomo) in a two-day festival. Composer Bloch, now 67 and clean-shaven, has never written any tunes that are hummed in every U.S. household. But musicians rank him, along with Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg, as the best of the European expatriates now in the U.S. Bloch knows as much about strident dissonances and spastic rhythms as the next...
October graduates named are Maurico C. Benewitz '47 of Hartford, Connecticut; Joseph S. Berliner '48 of Harvardevens; Sheldon R. Braiterman '48 of Ballimore; Mark R. Leiserson '48 of Washington; Donald R. Miller '47 of Jersoy City, New Jersoy; William J. Moss '44 of St. Pail. Minnesota; Alexander Rich '46 of Springfield; Alan R. Solomon '42 of Cambridge...