Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics had made at least a few gains. Said one Paley convert: "It's a funny game where the jackasses pin the tail on the people, but that's radio until the people realize it." Said a shrewd radio editor, veteran of many an N.A.B. convention: "At least they had it thrown in their faces by one of their own kind. They had to face it. And they're going to have to face it from now on. FCC has licensed more than 400 new stations in the last year and there's more coming. That...
This was one of the important questions TIME had to try to answer when we decided to convert our wartime International editions (set up to serve U.S. military needs) to civilian editions all over the world. We knew that the war had multiplied the curiosity of people everywhere about the U.S. and the U.S. viewpoint on practically everything. We also hoped that there was a demand for TIME abroad & beyond that of the thousands of foreign citizens who wrote us during the war asking how & when they could get TIME...
...less a crime for a Public Bureau or Commission to divert the substance of Peter to buy the vote of Paul than it is for some Kreuger to convert the assets of a publicly held corporation to personal...
During the war Japanese officialdom frowned on go as a time-waster. After it came off the blacklist, millions of fans stayed down in the dumps-the game was not the same without Chinese-born National Champion Wu Ching-yuan. Wu had become a convert of Aiko Nagashima, high priestess of the Jiwu cult of Buddhism, and she had said...
...Cautious A.F.L. Boss William Green gave the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters a straight-talking guide to Communist doubletalk. Sample: "They are willing to promise you the moon to convert you into tools and catspaws. . . . The Communists do not want to see the anti-poll tax bill and the fair employment bill adopted. By placing themselves in the forefront of these measures, they knew they were helping to defeat them...