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Colonizer Sayão is well aware of the project's weaknesses. He wants to use some of the threefold increase Rio granted for his next year's budget to build more schools. The hospital, too, needs funds. So far, the colony has concentrated on rice as a cash crop; Sayão is not sure but that cotton or coffee might be better. Also, the road that was the colony's lifeline leads only to Anapolis' one-horse railway. Now Sayão is driving the highway some 130 miles beyond his colony...
...President about to address a new Congress has a threefold problem: he must be firm but not insulting, must recommend without demanding, must be conciliatory but not abject-in short, he must present the best illustration possible of how the executive and legislative departments should work together in a democracy. When the President is of one party and the Congress of another, the problem is intensified...
...Zionism was absorbed in its own internal conflict. Massive, 72-year-old Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, who founded the Zionist Organization of America in 1898, announced: "I do not, I cannot withdraw from Zionism, but I withdraw from . . . the Zionist Organization of America." Dr. Wise's grievances were threefold: last month's World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, had been a "collection of personal hatreds and rancors and private ambitions"; it had immoderately rebuked both Britain and the U.S.; it had ousted Dr. Wise's good friend Dr. Chaim Weizman from the presidency of the W.Z.O...
...played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold. He made a brief speech of thanks, ending with a threefold 'Long Live China!' As he walked offstage, beaming and bowing, the delegates echoed 'Long Live China...
Division in Washington. The Committee of Three requested the views of Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. Commander in the China Theater. Wede-meyer's response was immediate, explosive and threefold...