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...windswept field near Bolivia's big Catavi tin mine, President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped to a rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing...
...Most of us have simple, human dignity. Most of us feel gratitude to those who have served us-and saved us. Most of us prefer civility to rude insults. Most of us are courteous, and most of us mostly tell the truth. Hardly any of us common people are as common as Mr. Truman...
...Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue was not always a hotbed of scandal. From 1933 to 1943, it was run by Guy Helvering, a man of spotless reputation who prided himself on being rude to politicians who asked the BIR for favors...
...Helvering was succeeded by Robert Hannegan of St. Louis, a close personal friend of Truman and a politician who prided himself on not being rude to other politicians. Hannegan was only in the office four months. (He went on to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Postmaster General of the U.S., and part owner of the St. Louis Cardinals; he died in 1949.) In those four months Hannegan picked James Finnegan, a political hack, as his successor in St. Louis. He also picked his successor as commissioner of Internal Revenue, Joe Nunan, a Tammany character who had been collector...
...this, added the directive, should convince Americans that "Italian youth will never cooperate with them in case of war." Above all, concluded the directive, never let the visitors know that the nastiness was planned. "One should be rude," said the memo, "but with spontaneity...