Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bans against television and frequency modulation radio stations (which were not allowed to share standard broadcasts of music), and a brand new and bigger ban against the record and transcription business. He had gone to Washington to let the House Education and Labor Committee ask him why he had done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing him to trial for making radio stations hire standby musicians...
Last week, in the musty halls of Caracas' Central University, 39-year-old Arnoldo Gabaldón rose to receive a nation's thanks. Flanked by six cabinet ministers, Gabaldón told of what had been done. "We are now able to dominate this great plague of the nation," he said. "In all probability we will be the first tropical country to defeat the disease...
...since the opera house was built," said the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra's manager. The woodwind players were stomping their feet, brass players were applauding; violinists rapped their bows on their music stands. The audience had started it by clapping spontaneously between movements, which simply isn't done ordinarily. Said one awed onlooker: "My God, some of the ladies are even taking their gloves...
...more than fair for delivering scarce goods. Snapped Ginsberg: "I want to say, sir, Ginsberg is as proud as McCarthy. I don't believe you can possibly pass legislation to prevent me, and honest men like me, from making a fair profit. Only in Russia could that be done...
...that the members of the first branch (the House) should be elected by the people, and that each house should have the power to originate acts. Even more fundamental, Congress should have the power to negative all laws of the states that contravened the articles of union. Then, having done all this, the delegates fell to arguing details...