Word: affections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Save the Nation." President Arbenz declared a state of siege, suspended constitutional guarantees for 30 days, banned gatherings and meetings "likely to affect public order." Then, in a gesture to antiCommunists, he dismissed Marxist Alvarado, appointed as the new orphanage director Roman Catholic Ernesto Cofino, who reinstated the three nuns...
...locals had been dickering unsuccessfully with 16 large city bakeries for higher pay and a five-day week. Then 4,000 bakery truck drivers marched out. The strike cut off 80% of the wrapped white bread delivered to the city and its suburbs, but it did not affect the smaller independent bakeries, which went on delivering bread. So the strike did not pinch the public much, and that made the teamsters angry...
...start of Korean truce talks poses a multibillion-dollar question for U.S. businessmen. The question: How will the prospective Korean cease-fire affect the U.S. economy...
...decision is not effected by that statement even though it is true, (c) Although true, I have not let that statement influence my decision, (d) That statement is true, but it does not affect my decision, (e) Because that statement is true does not have any effect on my decision...
...concentrated more economic power in one small group of men-perhaps only one man-than probably has ever happened before in the business life of our country .. . Not even the great railroad, steel, oil, tobacco or aluminum cases disclosed the existence of greater power in one organization directly to affect the economic life of so great a geographical area ... as does the record in this case." As evidence of that power, Evans cited figures: in the five-state area of California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Washington, Transamerica controls 47 banks, with 667 banking offices which have about...