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Argentina has sent the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva to screen the applicants. He takes former Fascists, provided they have no criminal records, but rejects Communists. Last week, irritated by this discrimination, the Communist-dominated Italian Labor Federation demanded the right to select the emigrants and asked for guarantees of labor conditions in Argentina. Father Silva threatened to call the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Hopes | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...what Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant Dean of the College, termed "the best meeting I can remember in Dudley's history," 170 commuters gathered at the center to select their nominees for the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Eliot, Adams Select Council Slates | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

...policy of the Committee on Scholarships throughout the 12 year history of the "Nationals" has been to select outstanding graduates of secondary schools for these prizes, regardless of the financial capabilities of the scholar's family. Unquestionably the College has benefited greatly from this infusion of rich intellectual talent and leadership. At the same time it is vital to note that of these Scholars, some 20 percent were taken from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three-fourths of a Nation | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

...plane brought the Cardinal's body home, flags were at half-staff. In Quebec, Rodrigue Villeneuve, shoemaker's son, this week lay in state. In its own good time, Rome would select his successor. Canada's top Catholic prelate was now James Cardinal McGuigan, Archbishop of Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: It Is the End | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...cannot be adjusted. The simplest method, I might add, would be to fit Miss Howard's recording to these needle adjustments, which, I might add also, have probably been made by engineers with perhaps more thoroughgoing engineering degrees than those passed out at Miss Porter's select school at Farmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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