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During a lull between visitors, he took a long, hard look down the barrel of a cannon. He vetoed the controversial basing point bill (see BUSINESS). He had waited until the tenth and last day, after which the bill would have become law without his signature. But he had intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man at Work | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

When the Supreme Court outlawed the cement industry's basing point system* two years ago, many businessmen in other industries felt that they too were breaking the law, although they weren't sure just what the law was. The Federal Trade Commission did not clear up matters any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slightly Clearer | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Under the Student Council's constitution, the entire student body must vote in referendum every four years on amendments. 1950 is an amendment year, and this is one thing the new group is basing its hopes on; if reform is manifest in the proposed amendments, no abolition movement will start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Lenient' Abolitionist Leads New Bloc to Reform Council | 5/2/1950 | See Source »

These qualities are embodied in the person of Noach Levinson, the diarist on whose discovered documents Hersey maintains he is basing his book. Levinson is an ugly man who runs around wheedling information from the central group of characters-people who are growing together under the curious pressures of the...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: Wall Around the Ghetto | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

They are basing this intellectually sound distinction between public and private rights on premises which are false. They are setting up for themselves criteria which not only prevent them from exercising true independence of action, but which also set them apart from and make enemies of those who do follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disagrees With Mr. Train | 1/24/1950 | See Source »

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