Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed that the profiteering food sellers should be rooted out and recommended a stern course of direct action. All the buyer had to do was call a policeman and the profiteer would be jailed in the Villa Devoto. Said Perón: "We shall close down for good all shops of all profiteers so that in the future only honest traders will be in business...
...mail column of the Herald carried a letter of protest from Professor John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, and yesterday's paper carried six more communications objecting to the original column. One of these was from Law School Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe and another was by Bernard DeVoto...
...DeVoto Complains
...DeVoto's letter in yesterday's Herald found the political implications in the Cunningham article "disturbing" and "scurrilous." Stating his point in a series of questions, he asked, "Does Mr. Cunningham believe that the freedoms so guaranteed (in the Constitution) should be restricted or abridged? If so, to which citizens should they be restricted and how much should they be abridged...
Pressure groups, DeVoto recalled, had scared Hollywood into disqualifying almost all minorities from badman roles, and the drive to salve the feelings of friends of the Red Indian was the last straw. Said he: "I protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons...