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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Youth will be served, the saying goes, and indeed it was at the Young Republican National Federation convention in Washington last week. Both the President and Vice President of the U.S. hustled across town to address the conventioneers...
World War II. Invited to join militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, Kishi served for three years as Commerce and Industry Minister, resigned in 1944 after a showdown with Tojo over military strategy (Minister Kishi wanted to sue for peace if the U.S. landed at Saipan). Arrested by the...
A new denomination was born last week. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in North America (membership: 251,244) approved plans to merge with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (membership: 2,809,603). The resulting 3,000,000-member body, which will officially begin its existence at...
United Press service also demands a philosophical disposition, for its low pay scale and tightwad expense accounts are legendary. During a national political convention in Chicago, longtime Bureaus Supervisor L. B. ("Save a Nickel") Mickel cut down on expense accounts so sharply that General News Manager Earl Johnson told his...
The doctor thought he saw a disturbing symptom. When he was a college lad, "the four-minute mile was as unlikely as flying to the moon." but nowadays it is only a little better than par for the course. "The recent rash of four-minute milers is no coincidence," darkly...