Word: affected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best foreign film: Justice is Done, a French picture showing how the lives of seven jurors affect their verdict in a murder case (TIME, March...
...doubt one of the first major entries that will be written on Chief Justice Warren's record is the court's action in the school segregation case. The decisions will directly affect some 12 million schoolchildren in at least 17 states* and the District of Columbia. The decisions may change the whole pattern of life in the South. In many nations where U.S. prestige and leadership is damaged by the fact of U.S. segregation, the court's action is awaited with intense interest...
...Arthur H. Samish, 56, has directed one of the most effective lobbying operations of modern times. "I'm the governor of the legislature; to hell with the governor of California," good-humored "Artie" Samish liked to say. When Earl Warren was governor, he agreed, saying, "On matters that affect his clients, Artie unquestionably has more power than the governor...
...decide trade policies. Among its proposals: give the President the power to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements to run for at least five years, eliminate the "Buy American" Act, simplify customs procedures, gradually reduce tariffs and quotas. Elimination of all tariffs, the committe said (though not advocating it), would affect fewer than 1% (215,000 to 465,000) of all U.S. workers...
...have to say something about what has happened in the past twelve months. As you know, there was a change in administration for 1953, with a lot of harsh things said about give-away programs and about people who want something for nothing. Just how does all this affect Santa Claus and Christmas...