Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could see before me the whole treatment of the Negro people in the South. The fact that I had been luckier than most people in education and income did not shield...
...International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has lent $125,100,000 to Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed by ex-Brain Truster Lauchlin Currie, would spend three months studying ways to increase Colombia's wealth...
Basso Ezio Pinza, a Broadway matinee idol at 57 (in South Pacific), made a new conquest. He signed a three-year $500,000 contract with MGM, starting next June and giving him a chance to star in both musicals and straight dramatic movies...
...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Gladys Swarthout in songs from South Pacific and Carmen...
...Mencken Chrestomathy is Mencken's own selection from his out-of-print writings. He has arranged them to deal broadly, and of course irreverently, with morals, women, statesmen, the South, literature and more than a score of other subjects. Worthier books have been published this year, but few that offer even a sizable fraction of the plain reading pleasure to be found in the chrestomathy (i.e., selection of passages-chrestos, useful; mathein, to learn). Even now, when many of the earlier heresies of the Sage of Baltimore have faded to archaic jeerings, he still has the power to annoy...