Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fund has experimented with putting master teachers on TV for the benefit of a whole school system. It has persuaded some colleges to take in bright high-school students before graduation and to give others advance standing after high-school graduation. It has also been a major catalyst in beefing up the standards of the public-school curriculum...
Last week the committee formally ratified the coin tossing by voting to give McCarthy's seat on Appropriations to New York's Ives. Then, without benefit of further flipping, it gave Joe's place on the Government Operations Committee to Indiana's Homer Capehart, normally an Eisenhower backer, and Joe's place on the Rules Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with...
Massively backed, Perón razed Argentine democracy. He turned Congress into a Peronista rubber stamp, had it impeach and convict the balky Supreme Court. In a rewritten "social-justice" constitution, he legalized the re-election of Presidents for his own benefit, gave the state power to "intervene in the economy." He deluged the country with billboard propaganda: "Peron Fulfills, Evita Dignifies." With malicious glee he seized Buenos Aires' La Prensa, long famed as one of the world's topflight newspapers, turned it into a mouthpiece for the C.G.T. And with engaging buffoonery, he joked...
...testimony, Beck pulled his worst on a Teamster's widow. Ray Leheney was a union official and longtime friend of Beck. After Leheney's death, Beck first collected nearly $80,000 in assessments and contributions from union members to form the Ray Leheney Memorial Fund for the benefit of Mrs. Leheney. Then, as the trustee of the Teamster funds, he "loaned" the National Mortgage Co. $71,407, with which he and Hedlund bought contracts at a discount. After some $10,000 in payments had been made on the principal, they "sold" the contracts to Dave Beck, now acting...
...result of the fallout of the Christmas Island explosion. Earl Attlee, Labor's former Prime Minister now in the House of Lords, said, "Some scientists think we are going to poison the upper atmosphere and destroy future generations, and some do not. I would like to give the benefit of doubt to posterity. I do not think it is so urgent that we should have the bomb in the next few months...