Word: abrahams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week John Alsop decided to present his credentials to the electorate, announced his candidacy for this year's G.O.P. nomination for governor. If he gets past four other Republican hopefuls at a state convention this June, the least-known Alsop brother will come up against incumbent Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff, no egghead, but one of the ablest votegetters in Connecticut...
...dying empire, promptly exiled him to Flores in the Outer Islands, where with thousands of other political detainees he continued his revolutionary education, reading insatiably in Dutch, English, French and Indonesian and drawing new conclusions from an odd compost of Lenin, Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Otto Bauer, Abraham Lincoln. He took time out-to divorce his wealthy widow and marry a young and beautiful Javanese girl named Fatmawati. He had no doubts about the future. "I entered prison a leader and I shall emerge a leader," he said...
...bothering to divorce Fatmawati, the mother of his five children. Sukarno took off for a tour of the world's capitals, shopping for new ideas. The tour became a triumphal procession and a tonic for the dispirited President of a mismanaged nation. He arrived in the U.S. quoting Abraham Lincoln, got a ticker-tape welcome in New York City, saw Hollywood (he was disappointed to miss Ava Gardner, who was off in Spain), made an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. He told the Congressmen that "we of Indonesia are in the stage of national turmoil...
...compete with low-overhead discounters, even the biggest stores run frequent "warehouse sales," "specials," "closeouts," trading at 10% above cost v. the standard 30% to 40% markups. Originally, the big stores restricted competition to a few fast-selling items; now they match discounters dollar for dollar. Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Los Angeles' Barker Bros., Jordan, Marsh Co. have started running almost identical ads proclaiming an old retailing slogan: "We Will Not Be Undersold." Milwaukee's Boston Store last week advertised: "Save 22% to 50% on ... famous Westinghouse appliances." Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. now tells...
...hysterical outcries did not help. In Miami Beach, Fla., the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council called upon labor leaders to gather in Washington in mid-March for a "National Emergency Conference" on the economy. In Connecticut, with 8.3% of the state's labor force out of work, Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff summoned the general assembly into special session. And in Washington, Capitol Hill Democrats, convinced that recession will be their party's most profitable issue in the November congressional elections, were doing the nation's confidence no good by trumpeting statistics of sag and calling for crash programs...