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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dark Horse. Busiest of all were the backers of Ohio's Taft. They flitted back from sorties into the countryside with broad grins and reports that scores of delegates ("So many that it is almost frightening," said one) were clamoring for Taft in '52. They were in no hurry to line up delegates, remembering that Taft had been a winter-book favorite in 1940, '44 and '48, without ever being able to get to the post. They feared one dark horse: Ike Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: That Old Feeling | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...acres, masters of $125 million in stocks and bonds, a 1,100-man faculty, an enrollment of 7,500. But such is their loyalty to Yale that rarely does any one of them miss a meeting. Even the nation's Secretary of State and one of its busiest Senators, Robert A. Taft, will once a month gladly drop everything in Washington for two days of sitting in high harmony side by side in New Haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Steady Hand | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...shadow of South Mountain in the eastern section of Seoul, between dusty, windswept Bell Street and the foul creek known as Clean Stream, lies the East Gate Market. Here, in prewar days, was the busiest, most bustling collection of shops in the city. Here a man could buy the rice and vegetables for his family, a housewife could buy a silk jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Market In Seoul | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...doing all it can for customers, 56-year-old Bill Long has in five years made his 13-plane outfit the busiest feeder airline in the U.S. In 1950, Long reported last week, Pioneer topped all competitors in passenger miles flown (37 million), was outranked only by Washington, D.C.'s All American in revenue passengers flown. Even after a $400,000 slash in Government mail pay, Long managed to boost Pioneer's profits by 7%, turn in a tidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Oilfield Shuttle | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Ignoring the machine's candidate, he hammered away at Shenker, at gamblers, bosses, and rackets. He kept plugging the fact that Shenker is one of St. Louis' busiest criminal lawyers, that he represented such big-time gamblers as C. J. ("Kew-pie") Rich and Bookie James J. Carroll before the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee (TIME, March 5). When Shenker announced that he would run his law practice to suit himself, Bakewell cried out that "a vote for Shenker is a vote for gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gamblers: Note | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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