Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adding a surprising tidbit to the intraparty race was a mailing poll conducted by Jet Magazine among 200 of the G.O.P.'s leading Negroes, who might be expected to back Rocky because of good works done over the years by family philanthropies. But Nixon took 81.7% to Rockefeller...
...vain that Casement's life be spared. When he was hanged, a storm of anti-British feeling rose among the Irish in the U.S. just at a time when the British were eager to get the U.S. into World War I on their side. Something had to be done and quickly, the British government decided, to discredit the name of Roger Casement. Soon prominent figures on both sides of the Atlantic began to hear strange tales about Casement's scandalous "black diaries." These, it was slyly suggested, were the most detailed records ever kept about...
What Bing had done, Gary did not specify. His remarks only served as reminders that Bing, too, had talked freely and foolishly about himself and his boys a few months before. He had failed as a father, Bing confessed to a Hollywood columnist. Somehow the strict discipline, the skimpy allowances, and long hours of hard ranch work to which he subjected his boys had not had the desired effect. They were forever getting into scrapes; even the Army had not made disciplined men of them. "They won't listen to me," Bing complained, "and it burns me up." Even...
...supplement rather than replace U.S. private industry abroad. Says he: "I want to see American industry do the job. Instead of promoting state enterprises, let's foster the private side." As head of the Development Loan Fund, he intends to stress private enterprise more than the fund has done, give more loans to foreign businesses instead of governments. He also hopes to get more money from Congress. Right now the fund has $53 million to give out in loans, but the loan applications total $1.4 billion...
...answers any letters, she consults available periodicals and her own 1,500-book library. "I read everything I can get my hands on on the subject," says she. "Then I condense it and put it into layman's language. There's so much that's been done in the psychiatric area that just isn't available to the average person. I act as translator and make it available...