Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tactical, aimed at encouraging other European lands, particularly West Germany, to take a neutral position beside Austria. But encouraging neutrality is a substantial retreat from the previous Soviet tactic of swallowing up and controlling satellites. As last week's pilgrimage to Belgrade demonstrated. Marshal Tito's current brand of "neutrality" is deplored by the Soviet Union. The prevailing view in high U.S. circles is that the Soviet leaders were forced to change because their previous policies stopped working...
...lies in the nostalgia of an older generation. Surveys show that almost as many adults as children follow the little rascals in New York. But the reason why they fascinate a new generation of small fry is to be found in the quality of the rascals themselves and the brand of mischievous nonsense they generate. They are good kids without being goody-goody; they have a genius for getting into jams, but are ingenious at getting out. They may build a gang-size hook and ladder, charge downhill in it and fling sky-high all pedestrians along...
...Federal Trade Commission Act." While Barnes said that the Justice Department was not yet ready to recommend repeal of the Fair Trade laws, as suggested by Attorney General Brownell's special antitrust committee (TIME, April 11), he revealed that he was "considerably disturbed by responsible businessmen" contending that brand-name products are cheaper in Fair Trade areas than else where. To answer such statements, said Barnes, his department is studying how Fair Trade laws actually operate...
Humming through Georgia one night in his brand-new Oldsmobile, Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, on his way home from a rousing speech to some farmers, ran into one of his state's worst rural problems. Two stray mules suddenly loomed up before his car on the road. "I hit one and turned over," recalled Talmadge. "It killed the mule. I'm just a little bruised." His car was a total wreck. Though his victim was out of the harness for good, Talmadge was soon fitted for one by doctors: X-ray photos showed that...
...which sued for $7,400,000 because Lait and Mortimer had written: "Some Neiman models are call girls . . . and the Dallas fairy colony is composed of many Neiman dress and millinery designers." Crown Publishers Inc., which published U.S.A. Confidential, promptly decided that it could not defend the Lait-Mortimer brand of journalism, settled out of court with the store by publicly apologizing. But Authors Lait and Mortimer refused to settle, boldly announced: "We propose to establish the truth of all our assertions [in the book]." Last week Columnist Mortimer and the estate of Editor Lait, who died last year, gave...