Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good product . . . The cost at his mill was in the vicinity of $69. The garment he made up at a local tailor. Now, Mr. Chairman, that was not an unusual activity . . . You are concerned, and I think correctly so, as to how such a friendship could affect the conduct of myself, an official, Assistant to the President, in his relations with men within the Government...
...upturned faces before him. He spoke with the confidence of a shrewd gambler who has doubled his bets, week after week, and won them all. The rebels, he cried, were nearly finished. The "foreign adventurers from Formosa and the U.S." had been foiled. He suggested that the U.S. "conduct a reappraisal of its policy" with regard to Indonesia. There was nothing to fear, Sukarno boasted, because "all I have to do is wink" and "volunteers" would come pouring in from Red China and the Soviet Union. But, no, he would not wink, since "with God's mercy, with...
Calculating that the A. & P. saved $2,000,000 to $12 million a year during each year the contract was in effect over what its competitors were paying their help, Committee Chairman John L. McClellan last week called Schimmat's conduct "reprehensible."' Other committee Democrats, restive over being cast in the role of labor critics in McClellan investigations, vehemently agreed. Said North Carolina's Democrat Sam J. Ervin Jr.: "Those clerks were sold down the river...
With Schoolfield himself looking on unblinkingly from a balcony seat, the legislators listened to 25 separate counts of improper judicial conduct during the judge's ten years on the bench. Samples: taking bribes; quashing indictments against 13 Teamster goons accused of dynamiting and arson (TIME, Dec. 30); illegally "retiring" hundreds of felony cases, putting the defendants in his power by letting them out of jail but keeping them subject to prosecution. By overwhelming votes, the house adopted 24 of the 25 counts, concluded that "no Tennessean should be forced to [stand trial] before such a judge." Next step...
...Baby." For a few other newspapers that carped at the Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...