Word: bona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Page One headlines that the refusal to give Winnington a passport is "a flagrant violation of the liberties of the press," other British papers did not protest. They apparently felt that no question of freedom of the press was involved; Winnington was being recognized at last not as the bona fide correspondent he claims to be but as a Communist agent, which...
...lack bothered Athlyn Deshais, a conscientious newshen who runs the Chicago Daily News's lively society page. Last month Athlyn decided that, since no bona fide doyenne was in sight, she had better arrange to have one chosen-by democratic referendum, of course. Just before Christmas she sent out ballots to 2,000 pedigreed socialites, to elect a new queen. Society reacted with murmurs of pleasure and squeals of outrage. Just about 50% of Athlyn's 2,000 sent in their ballots. Day after day, the News breathlessly reported the latest tabulations. Thirty-five of Chicago...
...Survivors Insurance System as a social insurance system that provides benefits related to previous wages, payable to workers meeting the minimum eligibility requirements, and financed out of contributions of employers and workers. Mr. Campbell, following the United States Chamber of Commerce line, alleges this system is not "a bona fide insurance system" because each insured worker does not have an individual contract...
...social security system is an insurance system under which benefits have been bought and paid for. Apparently the editors of the CRIMSON do not know that under the present OASI system the individual has no contract with the United States Government as would be necessary if this were a bona fide insurance system. Former Commissioner Altmeyer admitted this in the recent hearings conducted by the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. Thus, the present system is already one which, to use the words of the Harvard CRIMSON, is "subject to change at the whim of legislators...
...Card. The new union had been in existence for less than four months, was still being run by sailors, machinists and teamsters rather than bona fide dock wallopers. And I.L.A.'s new president, Tugboat Captain William V. Bradley, played a key card with neatness and effect: on the eve of the election, he met with John L. Lewis and announced that the miners' chieftain had extended his blessing. "Our financial worries are over," Bradley said, and added with satisfaction that he favored ducking permanently under Lewis' muscular wing...