Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other prominent G.O.P. candidate. Dewey indicated that Warren would get the job of reorganizing the nation's executive departments, take on a large share of administrative work. His big, easy Scandinavian charm and gift of homy, off-the-cuff phrases make him an extremely effective campaigner, would add needed warmth and folksiness to the ticket...
Lest their housecleaning inspire some possible Monmouth kin (he was the illegitimate son of Charles II) to new activity against the House of Windsor, or bring Anne of Cleves's Dutch connections flocking to London to claim a place at court, the Lords were careful to add a rider. "This act," they informed anyone nursing an old grudge or claim, "shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything done or suffered, or any existing status or capacity, or any right, title, obligation or liability...
Luckman has been worried about keeping the present level of sales in the face of resistance to high prices. He decided that the best way to keep volume high was to add to his products. For $5 ½ million, he picked up the Harriet Hubbard Ayer line of cosmetics (TIME, July 21), spent another million renovating its factory and hiring Raymond Loewy Associates to dress up its packaging and display. For $1.2 million, Luckman added a lower-priced cosmetic line (Luxor) to be sold through drugstores...
...owners want more. Last fortnight, Hotelman Conrad Hilton, combing Europe for possible links to add to his U.S. chain, was cold-shouldered when he asked if the Ritz could be bought. Said able Managing Director Claude Auzello: "Being a Ritz stockholder is a sort of hobby . . . The Ritz is an old tradition. It is not for sale...
...campesinos are backward and land-poor. Along the coasts, where people have more modern ideas and organization, they find the going tougher. But authoritative Mexican sources today give them half a million followers, 135,000 votes. Along with the more sophisticated, city-educated Acción Nacional, they add up to a potent conservative force. If the official P.R.I, should ever lose its grip, they might well rule Mexico...