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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Oregon, Republican maverick Senator Wayne Morse was running against a Democrat who was far to the right of him. Democrat Howard Latourette complained bitterly that the Truman Administration was giving him no help. The Veep conspicuously skipped Oregon in his western barnstorming and, when asked, elaborately failed to remember the Democrat's name. He added: "I like Wayne Morse. He is an attractive man." Morse was considered a shoo...
...past year De Gasperi has been pushing a comprehensive land reform act through Parliament. Its core: buy out large landholdings, cut them into small plots (about 15 acres), help the peasantry to buy and cultivate them. The political, financial, administrative and technical difficulties are staggering. For example, some localities suffer now from too much fragmentation of land ownership; in others, the land must first have irrigation, fertilizers, etc. The slowness of the government program led last fall and spring to peasant seizures of land, especially in southern Italy, where conditions are most depressing. Blood was shed, and the Communists shouted...
...They will be distributed as soon as you receive your land. You will be asked to pay for these plows over a period of years. You will also get fertilizer and it will be wise for you to pay for it each year, if you can. Remember you must help each other. Those of you who have a donkey must lend it to those who haven't. You must do that . . . until those without a donkey can plant enough fodder for a donkey to eat. Then we shall distribute donkeys...
Salzburg Seminar has recently undergone considerable revision, and all of it will help the school to be even more effective. It now operates on a permanent year-around basis. And it now is a corporation and can receive tax-free charity money in its own right. These changes imply good management; they should lead to a healthy Salzburg and a great deal of through understanding about America among the people of Europe...
...final Leverett touchdown came in the last period when Gallo caught a Dudley punt and, with the help of effective blocking, ran 40 yards for the touchdown...