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...barbs from their domestic enemies have stung Italy's Christian Democratic politicians so much as recent stories in the U.S. press about the menace of Communism in Italy. Most resentful of all was Party Chief Alcide de Gasperi, who considered the reports exaggerated-many of them were-as well as reflections on his eight years as Italy's postwar Premier...
...memory and was eager to help anyone interested in him. She was also quick to defend him. Once John Mason Brown, drama critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote an article which seemed to Miss Cordingly to imply she took as an insult to Roosevelt, wore a wig. Stung by what she took as an insult to Roosevelt, she wrote Brown, demanding that he name his authority. Brown diplomatically suggested that her interpretation had been mistaken, explaining that he had been referring to a wig once worn by Ed Wynn in impersonating Roosevelt. In closing, he chided her gently...
November. The trend was sharp in the farm-equipment industry, which had been stung by three years of declining farm income. Late last year it reached the automobile industry. As U.S. military expenditures began to decline, there were layoffs at plants engaged in defense work. By last month the number of unemployed was officially placed at 2,300,000, compared to 1,200,000 at October's low point...
This week House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn, stung by the G.O.P. attack, lashed back. Said Mister Sam: The attacks on Democrats by men in high administration circles were "mean, untrue and dastardly...
...Stung by recent evidence that there is a definite connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer (TIME, Nov. 30), the tobacco industry organized to nail down the facts. In telling the U.S. public this week (in newspaper ads) of its decision, the Tobacco Industry Research Committee-challenged the conclusiveness of recent findings but said: "We accept an interest in people's health as a basic responsibility, paramount to every other consideration in our business...