Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served the U.S. ever since as an economic and welfare adviser. He knows more about the U.S. social-security system than anyone else. Named Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1953, he was the key man in the first total revision of U.S. tax laws in 79 years (TIME, Aug...
...last weekend among the stately mansions of Newport, R.I. for the second Newport Jazz Festival. Neckties were not worn and tea was not drunk; cries of "Go, go, go!" burned the sea-cooled air, and other un-Newportian manifestations jarred the Old Guard as they had last year (TIME, Aug. 2) and probably would again. But the general consensus on Bailey's Beach and along Bellevue Avenue was that this year's foreigners were considerably more "dignified" than before...
...cause of the fireworks was a surprise announcement by General Motors that it was splitting its stock three shares for one, held as of Aug. 8, the fifth stock split* in G.M.'s history. It will give G.M. 278,683,500 shares of stock, more than three times the total for General Electric, which has the second biggest amount of stock outstanding...
...million) for all seven of its years as a free country. Beset by two Communist and several factional rebellions, by the legacy of war's chaos, by the inexperience of his young civil servants, U Nu has striven to lift his country toward new hope of survival (TIME, Aug. 30). Modest and meditative U Nu fought the Communists at home, plumped for Nehru's neutralism abroad, but concentrated on leading an extraordinary Buddhist revival which is now the focus of his country's anti-Communist potential...
...been a member of the Communist Party." The Guild's action, which applies to anyone who has been a member of the party within six months of being fired, takes the place of a proposed change in the Guild's constitution barring Communists from membership altogether (TIME, Aug. 16). "If anyone wants to exercise his right to be part of a conspiracy," explained St. Louis Guildsman Rollin Everett, "then let him seek employment from those who agree with...