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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the World in 80 Days. Mike Todd makes the Jules Verne classic into a big, colorful show (TIME...
...Southern legal eagles argued no, and Conservative Democrat Dave Lawrence stated their case: "Contempt charges . . . have been applied heretofore primarily to acts committed in a courtroom or with respect to property seized by an individual which he may be forced to bring into a courtroom." This view ignored the classic use of the contempt-of-court charge to enforce the injunctive power, e.g., in the fines totaling $30,000 levied in 1946 and 1948 against United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis for disobeying a court order to return his miners to work. The contempt citation is, in fact...
Provisional President Pierre-Louis' first act was to free Candidate Dejoie and the other political prisoners. It had been a classic Haitian coup de langue, wherein the tongue proves mightier than the sword...
...force its currency, lately worth around 10,000 bolivianos to the dollar, back up toward its 1951 value of 200. The tools to be used: a drastic stripping-away of artificial economic controls, and a $25 million stabilization loan.* The boliviano's inflation is not yet a classic like the German mark after World War I, when prices multiplied 1.2 trillion times. But in recent months the boliviano has been clearly and dramatically on the skids. Since March the government has imported 55 tons of freshly printed currency. Newspaper vendors in La Paz sit surrounded by such mountains...
Fred Allen's Much Ado About Me, probably one of the most ironically untrue titles of recent years, will rate as a classic history of American vaudeville--which, when one considers its importance in the number of people involved, is a highly significant activity in our history. Fred Allen seemed to stand for all that was truly true and ambitious about the business. His sense of duty was religious, his loyalty unquestionable, his integrity never impugned. And he was funny, as this book reveals, not in the broad sense in which "Allen's Alley" made him famous...