Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made industrialists who head Lima's Neon Products, Inc. (1956 gross: $7,000,000). The partners put up $100,000 and, at Current's suggestion, decided to sell $200,000 worth of stock in order to make the new paper a community project. Its name: the Lima Citizen. Of more than 1,000 Limaites who bought up the shares, only some 150 invested more than $125 each. "I bought stock as a civic responsibility," said one businessman...
Tricky Gadgets. Speakers at the N.C.C.C.I, rally stressed the point that much of the blame for inflation lies outside Washington. Said Ohio's Senator Frank J. Lausche: "Every citizen has a part to play in this fight against inflation." Inflation curbing, said Missouri's veteran Congressman Clarence Cannon, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, "must begin at the grass roots." Economist Edwin G. Nourse, head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Harry Truman, rapped "tricky gadgets" of inflation, such as cost-of-living escalator clauses in union-management wage contracts. "We should stop...
...Desire, She Made It Pay). In the Roth case, the major question was whether the U.S. law abridged the First Amendment (freedom of speech and press). In the Alberts case, it was whether the California statute violated the 14th Amendment restriction against any state's depriving any citizen of life, liberty or property without due process...
...corporate market planning and a big responsibility for keeping Chrysler out ahead of the style parade. Born in Italy, where his father, a Philadelphian, was living temporarily, Cope came to the U.S. to stay in 1915, went to work as a newspaperman at 19, first for the Asheville, N.C. Citizen and later for the Associated Press in Washington. Moving over to organize a public relations staff for the Automobile Manufacturers Assn., he caught the eye of Chrysler President K. T. Keller, who in 1944 asked him to come to Chrysler as assistant to the president. Later, under President...
White Water. In Brisbane, Australia, the Postmaster General's Office hastily announced that it was just using up wartime envelopes as an economy move, after citizens indignantly asked how come their government telephone bills were arriving in envelopes stamped, "A Still Tongue Makes a Good Citizen...