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...strong party which opposes the Communists can make use of their most influential offer, land reform, for fear of losing its strongest backer and wealthiest landholder in the country, the Church. Communists have been able to win power by playing on the one peasant devotion stronger than Catholicism, their love of the land. CP members all over the country have been visiting the poverty-stricken farms, asking the peasants what they need, and promising fulfillment if they vote for the Democratic Front. They insist the anyone can be a Communist and a Catholic at once...
...inexperienced theorist, but a self-made man, a pretty rare article in Brazil. Child of a British-born Santos bank manager and a Brazilian-Scottish mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
...justice which we see in the police states of Eastern Europe. It is more important to make our cause so just that it will win the allegiance not of the comfortable but of the insecure and the impoverished. It is particularly important that America, as the most powerful and wealthiest of the nations in the western world, should acquire a higher degree of humility. Without it we will insist upon political creeds and political reforms which Europe regards not as the creed of democracy but as the characteristic prejudice of a very wealthy nation. . . . Without humility and the imagination...
...roadsters, gentlemen have always been the pride of the picturesque college town of Charlottesville in Albermarle County, Virginia. The University glories in its distinguished founder and first rector, Thomas Jefferson, and the names of Presidents Madison and Munroe appear on the records as "visitors," 1819 equivalent of trustees. The wealthiest state university per capita in the nation, it was recently termed a collection of "rich young wastrels" by Time Magazine. More kind and accurate many years earlier was the description of the undergraduate product by Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard at the inauguration of the first president of Virginita...
...President Chiang Kai-shek last fortnight: "The mistake most of our comrades make is that they show too much tendency to rely upon foreign help. . . . Those who have energy must give energy; those who have money must give money." Ex-Premier T. V. Soong, one of China's wealthiest men and the President's brother-in-law, responded promptly...