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...hour, a wage comparable to that skilled labor receives in Mexico.They do not argue, do not agitate, do not complain; if they do, they can always be turned in as border jumpers. Farmers have built good barracks for some, but others live wretchedly, taking shelter in caves or rude lean-tos, cooking in the fields, washing in irrigation ditches...
...Czechoslovak Communist Party, four Communist district secretaries and a former ambassador. Said Deputy Party Secretary Gustav Bares: "We are making new discoveries. The Central Committee is determined to exterminate to the last drop this ugly and stinking ulcer." On one day last week, the Communist Party paper Rude Prdvo published four columns of letters demanding "speedy condemnation" for Clementis and his accomplices. It looked as if the Reds were working toward a show trial in Prague...
...third time in 43 years, an American won the tennis championship of Australia. It was all a rude surprise to Australia-winner of the Davis Cup last fall and supposedly sitting serene in the tennis world for a long time to come. The Aussies figured without Dick Savitt...
...Manufacturer Ted Briskin.*"Well," she said cheerfully, "here we go again," and repeated the same testimony which had done the trick for her the last time. She had divorced Briskin in April and was reconciled with him before the decree became final. But he had gone right on being "rude to her guests" and making her "very, very nervous." Her new decree was granted forthwith...
...time of literary rebellion which came like a rude but welcome belch after a dull and heavy meal. Among the loudest belchers were famed Critics H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. At a Manhattan party one night, "Red" Lewis drunkenly embraced Mencken and Nathan and yelled: "So you guys are critics, are you? Well, let me tell you something. I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country . . ." Next day, after reading the proofs of Main Street, Mencken wrote to Nathan: "Grab hold of the bar-rail, steady yourself, and prepare for a terrible shock . . . That...