Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would hand out Government-owned surplus grain to farmers who grow even less than their allowances. Iowa farmers leaned in the same general direction, set the stage for a rough-and-tumble battle at the American Farm Bureau convention in Chicago next week. Though none of the farm organizations brought forth really promising ideas, ground was broken by the realization that, as Kansan Boone put it, "there is a lot more urgency than I have ever seen before...
...threats finally brought Livingston Merchant, top U.S. State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
Nivins the Nightshade. The payola game brought Disk Jockey Clay in contact with a string of Damon Runyon-like characters, including Nat ("The Rat") Tarnapol, artist-and-repertory man for Roulette records, and Promoter Harry Balk, indicted earlier this year as a fixer of newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9). But the most lizardous type Tom Clay ever encountered was Harry Nivins, a bald, cherubic nightshade who proved to be Tom's downfall...
...newspapers to say that the network "assumes complete responsibility to the public for what appears on NBC." But the ad also insisted that "TV wins a daily vote of confidence in 45 million American homes," and rejected "grandiose schemes for television's Utopia." Unfortunately, NBC has so far brought forth no notable schemes, Utopian or otherwise, seems to be spending much of its brainpower working over the pity of it all. CBS has reiterated its own notion of responsibility-without having done anything noteworthy about more balanced programing, either-convinced that its function as broadcaster should not be parceled...
...sputniks and international competition in almost every conceivable field, research programs have multiplied almost by necessity. But the steady rise in grants from the Federal government has also brought fear of possible Federal control of education...