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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blaming its trouble on rural electrification and on the increased use of cigarette lighters and paper book matches, the Diamond Match Co. announced it would shut down its "kitchen match" plant in Oswego, N.Y. for ten weeks...
Skulk, Ribs, Eardrums. Legislators feel that the one sure way to stabilize the country is to fire officials who use Japanese methods. The National Assembly claims that the administration never really enforced the national traitors' law against Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese. An Assembly committee established its own jails, courts, investigators and armed police and hauled in collaborators, including high officials of the regular police. Last week's police raid disrupted this Assembly "law enforcement" system...
...state will buy out big landowners and, in turn, be paid for the land by small farmers with a fraction of their crop for several years. The state will pay landlords in certificates which they can use to buy shares in former Japanese industries from the government...
...silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked his capital, Ospina refused Liberal demands for his resignation. Though snipers peppered his Bogota office from nearby steeples and buildings, he sat imperturbably at his desk. "Better for Colombia a dead President...
Pressure mounted again as last week's congressional elections approached. Throughout the campaign, Conservatives and Liberals in country districts fought it out with knife and gun (TIME, June 6). Conservatives could not understand why Ospina himself did not use force to win the election. Liberals, fearful that a Conservative triumph now would lead to a Conservative presidential victory next year, tried to embarrass the President by withdrawing their men from his cabinet...