Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished men. The governor's office is far too important to the welfare of the people of this state to be allowed to become a pawn in the presidential contest. No candidate should be pressed by his political advisers to seek the governorship of California for temporary use as an interim steppingstone to any other office...
When the vice-minister appealed to the sitdowners to end their strike, a woman in the audience held up a tear-gas canister and asked: "Is this what you use against women?" The militia used tear gas again the second night, and after routing strikers from the car barns got the trolleys moving, with guards on each. The strike was over, broken not only by a show of force, but by the government's promise to look into the strikers' complaints...
Asia for Asians. Put simply, Diem is still taking U.S. money by the millions ($197 million last year), but less and less U.S. advice. One example of this was a decision not even to use the phrase "antiCommunism" in any speeches in Thailand. Diem remains a Roman Catholic and a staunch antiCommunist, but he has become convinced that Communism is best fought in Asian terms, and from a non-Western base. The next stop, as Diem sees it (and as he hopes to convince other Southeast Asian leaders), is the creation of such a base through a revival and reappraisal...
...Lauro assigned 77 city cars to his cronies for personal use, ordered the city to pay the license fees, taxes and even the repair bills, allowed the cronies to fill up their private cars at city gas pumps. Estimated cost of the largesse: several hundred thousand dollars yearly. ¶ Lauro required every city contractor to kick back up to 10% to his "Welfare and Feast Fund," supposedly for poor Neapolitans, who thought their Christmas packages and spaghetti handouts had come from Lauro's own pocket. ¶Dandified Senator Gaetano Fiorentino, Lauro's No. 1 helper who now drives...
...television scripts-a fearful profession. In a democracy you now have financial censorship." On creeping concrete: "Architects are looking to cities 400 miles long. Extraordinarily repulsive." The cure for it all: "I've started work on a sort of reverse Brave New World, about a society which makes use of both East and West." Would it work? "Who knows...