Word: untillable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, De Gasperi himself went to Calabria to talk to the peasants. He told them that, until the situation was cleared up by law, they might keep the land they had seized. He promised reform. Said he: "... I am no revolutionary, but I cry woe betide landowners who don'...
But until they got land, the peasants would be skeptical. Said Maria Rosa Giuliano, who lives in a windowless cavern with her nine children: "We will believe in the good things De Gasperi says when we see them. We liked him-the poor, thin man. But we have been disappointed...
Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson, 40, of Red Wing, Minn.-the first woman Ambassador in U.S. history-sailed from New York to take up her post in Copenhagen, Denmark. With her went Johanna, 15, Hans, 11, and Husband John, who was proud not only of his wife's big new...
Edmund Davie Fulton, Tory member of Canada's Parliament from Kamloops, B.C., had never read a crime comic until some of his worried constituents sent him a batch two years ago. Shocked by the gory yarns, 33-year-old Tory Fulton, onetime Rhodes scholar and wartime infantry officer in...
The orchestra to which Charles Munch has fallen heir was not the U.S.'s oldest. It was founded in 1881, 39 years after the New York Philharmonic. But it was the second oldest symphonic organization, and Conductor Munch was a descendant of a distinguished line of "permanent" conductors. Founder...