Word: severina
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...that they were improperly acquired. The judgments of the Philippine courts would then be presented to American courts, which would be asked to order the transfer of the property to the Philippine government. "It's traditional legal practice for foreign judgments to be given effect in this country," contends Severina Rivera, a Washington-based attorney for the commission...
Skeptics & Reformers. Though it had been shouted from hilltops, none in Santa Severina believed it would really come about. A system that for generations had kept Santa Severinians hungry, thirsty, dirty, diseased and in despair could never end. Despite the local disbelief, Ente Sila (government agency for land distribution and improvement) patiently and doggedly pushed...
...meetings between Ente Sila and Santa Severina's people, each plot of land had been carefully discussed, each peasant had his say as to value. I was present at the meeting that preceded last week's Sunday drawing. It was held in the moonlight, in front of the municipal hall. Professor Manlio Rossi-Doria, the energetic assistant chairman of the Sila Project, spoke from an open window...
...left the Communist Party because he is one of the few believers in the Sila Project, was arguing heatedly with Michele Verardi. Tigano had ordered a gang to cut through a garden which Verardi rents from Baron Giulio Berlin-gieri. On the map (and all old inhabitants of Santa Severina confirmed this) a municipal road once ran through the garden. Through the years, Landlord Berlingieri's tenants had advanced little by little onto the road so that it gradually became part of the baronial property...
...Santa Severina land is divided into good and less good zones. The best is an irrigable portion called Maestria because it needs skill to work it. The least desirable includes the land of San Francesco e Marucaro and some parts of Vallegrande. Then there are the middling lands, the Cuocino, partly dotted with olive groves. Nocella drew a poor San Francesco plot. A long sigh went through the crowd. The next name drew a middling plot. The crowd lost some of its tenseness...