Word: emanuel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first automatic washer in 1937, will be sold, pending approval of final terms, by Avco Manufacturing Corp. to Philco Corp. Avco also said it will close its money-losing Crosley appliance business (refrigerators, ranges, radio-TV), leaving 78 distributors around the nation with nothing to distribute. Chairman Victor Emanuel ticked off a host of reasons for Avco's retreat from appliances: "Increasingly severe competition, large over-capacities, rampant price-cutting, rising costs of labor and material...
...Federal Court in Manhattan's Foley Square had not been so lively since Estes Kefauver interviewed Frank Costello. A House Judiciary subcommittee, holding hearings on monopolistic practices in the broadcasting industry last week, wound up testimony from leading tunesmiths, lyric writers and librettists. Upstaging Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler were Librettists Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II, Dorothy (I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby) Fields and Otto (Roberta) Harbach; Composer Stanley (What a Difference a Day Made) Adams, Occasional Songwriter Billy (Barney Google) Rose. Their statements were all designed to show...
...Spell. In Albuquerque, arrested for drunkenness, Emanuel Welch confided to police that he sometimes uses an alias, supported his claim by spelling Sebastian Bogankinzenellenriinzinskiyork the same way three times...
...Married. Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell, 71, British Socialist Minister of Defense (1950-51), self-educated ("It's a great handicap") veteran Laborite; and Dinah Meyer, 54, London bank secretary and staunch admirer of Tory Sir Winston Churchill; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...stormy Labor Party meeting next day, Emanuel Shinwell, Defense Minister in the last Labor Cabinet, proposed that the Labor Party send an apology to B. & K. for Brown's behavior. The party indignantly refused. "It would be like apologizing for criticizing someone for knifing your brother," said one M.P. But next day Gaitskell called on the Russians at Claridge's, brought Brown's personal regrets, and expressed his own regret that the dinner had turned out badly. Khrushchev was unappeased...