Word: ben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Federal Judge Ben Moore opened a chink in the Taft-Hartley Act this week. He ruled that the act's ban against labor unions spending funds for political purposes was an "unconstitutional abridgement" of civil rights, and dismissed a test case against Phil Murray (TIME, Feb. 23). Next stop: the Supreme Court...
...atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets do not leak. Nevertheless, the group named the Washington Star's craggy Editor Ben McKelway as head of an eight-man committee to think things over and report next month...
...When Ben Grauer was a cub announcer at NBC, back in 1930, he competed with ten other announcers for a program sponsored by Gobel's bologna. The other ten sounded very highbrow, but Ben got the job. "That's the man," the sponsor cried, "that's what I sell-baloney...
Last week, 263 sponsors and some 27,000 commercials later, Ben Grauer had come a long way for a baloney salesman. On NBC's big new documentary series, Living-1948 (Sun., 4:35 p.m., NBC), he was the narrator and star. In his nine other regular radio and television jobs, he ran the gamut between straight man and U.N. analyst. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby has said with some amazement that Grauer "does everything but sweep out the studio...
...Stern Gang and even the "moderate" Jewish Agency blamed the British for the preceding week's horror in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street (see cut), where an explosion had killed 54 Jews. The Arabs took the credit for setting off the blast, but the Jews preferred to believe that it had been the work of British troops. The wrecking of the train (whose soldier passengers could not possibly have had a part in the Ben Yehuda outrage) was a "reprisal...