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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan was executed (TIME, June 14). But when De Gaulle offered Peyrouton a commission as captain, the ex-Governor General was insulted. So he tried to save himself by sending another letter of resignation to General Giraud...
Within the residential bastion, Pepe grinned and settled down for a long siege. He planned to remain out of circulation until Aug. 10, when Congress convenes. At that time the President's dictatorial powers for maintaining the status quo will automatically expire. Congress, he hoped, will save him from Police Minister Aguilar, from President Arroyo del Rio and from confinement at Guaranda. Said he: "I did not pledge my word to return. . . . They even refused to clean my cell lest I should have someone to talk...
Before he visited Japan in 1934, Patric lived for three months in the U.S. the way a poor Japanese lives in Japan. This was to save money for the trip, and also to condition himself for Japanese life. He slept in the front seat of his car, ate canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office...
...going somehow. )- Subsidies breed more' subsidies. Said Albert S. Goss, getting his potent National Grange on the anti-subsidy record: "Having once established subsidies how are we ever going to get rid of them?" Others extended this point: as subsidies are applied to more & more products, consumers will save money by paying fixed prices, but this saving will be canceled by the higher taxes they must then...
...airmailed articles (to save cable tolls) are angled for publication six weeks after writing. They are bright vignettes-a picture of the five Italian bootleggers who supply the U.S. Army in Ethiopia; American soldiers borrowing the instruments of a Calcutta dance band and giving Calcuttans a taste of boogie-woogie...