Word: bowleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Lesson in Morals." New Dealing Columnist Lowell Mellett, a devotee of the hit-me-harder school, thought OPA's Sunday punch a disguised blessing: "I believe we have been given the one Christmas present we've wanted most-an increased sense of participation. . . . We not only want to...
An old friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped down last week to let a younger man step up. On his 75th birthday, kindly, white-haired Leighton Goldie McCarthy resigned as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. To his post Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King promptly appointed McCarthy'...
Harry Hopkins, to the surprise of no one, emerged once again as a potent White House adviser. Safely hidden away in his remodeled Georgetown house, he was beyond the reach of captious Congressmen. Close observers spotted the Hopkins hand in the appointment of Secretary of State Stettinius and his new...
Less Profit. OPA Boss Chester Bowles admitted all this as he gave out OPA's new plan. The complex pricing system on infants' and children's inexpensive clothes will be reduced to a dollar-&-cents basis which any housewife can understand at a glance. Furthermore, manufacturers will...
As a director of Muzak Corp., ex-Adman William Burnett Benton found that there was a market for canned music, free of advertising plugs, piped directly into clubs, hospitals, restaurants, factories. Bill Benton decided to apply the same system to radio. He lined up big-name sponsors for such a...