Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gang's All Here (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) has the authors of Inherit the Wind once again flipping back in U.S. history to the real life 19203, this time to Warren G. Harding under the name of Griffith P. Hastings. Their portrait is a largely familiar one of a genial poker-playing mediocrity who is hoisted into the White House. His cronies are crooks whom he turns into Cabinet members and on whose strong right claws he leans for support. At the end the authors portray a Harding who commits suicide,* but not until...
Born Marco Spinelli in Pittsburgh (his father is an Italian count, but Marco will not inherit the title, blandly admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...
Erhard was indignant and felt betrayed over Adenauer's bland reversal of his decision to step up to the presidency from the chancellorship, a post Erhard expected to inherit. The Economics Minister hastened home from Washington, angered not only by der Alte's cavalier change of mind but by numerous recent Adenauer slurs on Erhard's qualifications for West Germany's leadership. Alighting at Düsseldorf after an appropriately dramatic flight-his plane developed engine trouble, then was struck by lightning-Erhard threatened to resign from the Cabinet and denounced some "current lies...
...sections all week, but the key language was unequivocal and plunged Cuba down a land-reform road where many Latin American hopes have been dashed (see box). No corporation can own land in Cuba unless all stockholders are Cuban; no foreigner may buy or inherit land. If U.S. sugar companies do not sell out within a year, their land will be expropriated and paid off in 20-year government bonds bearing 4.5% interest. According to Castro's estimate, made on a television show, the bond payments would range from $15 to $45 per acre, just one-fourth what...
...sucessor to Dr. Adenauer, it seems most likely that Ludwig Erhard, burly Minister of Economics, will inherit the mantle, although some have speculated on Finance Minister Franz Etzel's chances. In the years since Adenauer took office there have been several contenders for the succession: Schaeffer, the original Finance Minister was the first, but too unsavory a connection with past scandals descredited him. The present foreign minister Heinrich von Brento seems unable to generate enthusiasm; Franz-Josef Strauss, Defense Minister, not composer, was also in the running for a time...