Word: cj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Read (1955). "With the mantle of Dr. Conant around me," as one principal puts it, many a working schoolman has finally got the school board's green light for scores of reforms and experiments that promise to make the new year one of the richest in history. Items: CJ In Philadelphia, high schools will give superior seniors five major subjects instead of four. In Richmond, high schools will begin a five-year program of 23 courses. In the Peekskill (N.Y.) High School, a Conant-inspired inventory should become the best persuader yet for top students not trying for college...
...CJ TIME erred...
...Milwaukee's David Previant, 47, framed Teamster constitutions that sapped power from local unions and centralized it in conferences and national officers. CJ Seattle's Sam Bassett, 61, a quarter-century Beck intimate, arranged secret Teamster loans to truckers, joined Teamster officials in borrowing union funds to make a killing on Campbell Soup stock...
...contributed to Dwight Eisenhower's basic, middle-road political philosophy, Milton helped persuade Ike to run for President in 1952. Again, after the President's 1955 coronary and 1956 ileitis attack, Milton, more than anyone else, helped Ike weigh the pros and cons of standing for reelection. CJ Milton advised and encouraged Dwight Eisenhower to go before the United Nations in 1953 with his historic atoms-for-peace proposal...
...Arriba Nixon!" Only 15 years ago a Democratic Senate committee investigated Puerto Rico and pronounced its problems "unsolvable." Only twelve years ago Puerto Rico's retiring New Dealing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell chose The Stricken Land as the title for his book about the island. Today Puerto Rico: CJ Boasts a per capita income of $443 (v. $742 for West Germany, $2,009 for the U.S.), which is surpassed in Latin America only by oil-rich Venezuela. ¶ Costs the U.S. Treasury next to nothing. ¶ Governs itself in orderly democracy within an imaginative new "Commonwealth" relationship to Washington...