Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land. Cardenas distributed over 45,000,000 acres of land to the peasants. With the backing of labor and the Indian peasantry, which still worship him, he built up the first socialist state in the Western world. Stubborn as a burro, Cárdenas fought for Mexico's sovereign right to control its own subsoil treasures of ore and oil. He nearly broke Mexico doing it. When he bequeathed his errors and accomplishments to Avila Camacho, it was as if a volcano had subsided...
...finest orchestral conductors alive, a sovereign interpreter of music old & new, is no solemn priest of tone but the ebullient son of Britain's most celebrated laxative manufacturer. Goateed, 63-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham is also an enthusiastic newlywed, a considerable amateur of the Elizabethan drama (especially Beaumont & Fletcher), an adamant and voluble Tory (though in this role he is really more of a Character than a Colonel Blimp), and a transparent apostle...
...rate Shakespeare, lacking depth, dimension, verbal magic. But in its evil, hunchbacked hero, mounting through blood and stealth to the throne he covets, it has a thumping good stage character. Arrogant, brilliant, constantly dissembling before others but never deceiving himself, murdering without a qualm his followers, his friends, his sovereign, his brother, his little nephews, Richard can be a fascinating villain. Two centuries of notable actors, from Garrick to John Barrymore, made...
...newsmen in Washington, who cabled stern stories back home. Shooting at the speech's most vulnerable spot, the London Timesman wrote: "Not by a single word did she show any awareness that the rights of innocent passage and free landing . . . must and would be reciprocally agreed as between sovereign nations." Henry Wallace answered his detractor: "I am sure the vast bulk of the Republicans do not want to stir up animosity against either our Russian or English Allies. . . ." In Detroit, Poet Carl Sandburg interrupted a Lincoln Day speech: "I'm sorry for anybody who talks of 'globaloney...
...birth on British soil might make him technically a Briton, would complicate matters. Therefore to smooth the path of the Dutch succession, the Dominion Government last week decreed that during the hours of childbirth (expected this month) Canada will grant extraterritorial rights to the birthplace and suspend all its sovereign claims to that part of the earth under the delivery room...