Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voted, in the Appropriations Committee, to give Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield $133 million of the extra $149 million he insisted he needed (over and above the $3.2 billion originally budgeted) to run the Post Office...
...many economists to signal changes in the nation's business climate before they become generally noticeable. The index-and two other similar barometers-was developed by analysts of the National Bureau of Economic Research, including Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, and Arthur Burns, former council chairman and now president of the bureau. Since it accurately foretold the 1947 and 1953 recessions, the index is now giving many an economist and businessman the recession jitters with its steady downward movement. Last week Dr. Reinhold Wolff, head of the University of Miami...
...Arthur Brisbane, journalism's Basic English eminence, then on the New York World, put Harriet to work as a columnist. It was a good pick. She had written brilliant copy for her own cream, and she did even better campaigning against the wasp waist and for shorter skirts, and announcing that yes, it was very wrong to eat peas off a knife. Perhaps gallant General Grubb might have conceded that, regardless of who won the Civil War, American women won the peace. Harriet Hubbard Ayer fought to the last man and had the final victory of picking up poor...
...Arthur E. Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General LL.D...
...Died. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, 68, famed lawyers' lawyer and constitutionalist chief justice (since 1948) of the New Jersey Supreme Court (who simplified and reformed the state court structure and procedures), onetime (1938) president of the American Bar Association, longtime (34 years) professor and dean'(1943-48) at New York University's Law School; of a rupture of the aorta; in Summit...