Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooms, in the circles around the stockyard stoves. As always, the talk was about how hard it is to make a dollar. But this year the talk had the extra heat and urgency that come with falling farm prices. Farm-belt politicians tested the warning winds, decided that a fair-sized political storm was blowing up. And more fate-packed still was the widespread belief that, as Farmer Donald Mahlberg of Worthington, Minn, said, "It's going to show up worse next year"-at presidential election time...
...abroad are interdependent, just as the U.S. and the rest of the free world are interdependent. By fighting for sound money at home, he can encourage freer world trade by keeping the world's reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, dependably stable. By persuading Western Europe to assume a fair share of the foreign-aid burden, he can help to slow the outflow of U.S. gold reserves and thus help to keep the dollar sound...
...members) Teamster Local 560. In the local's October meeting Provenzano and his toughs squelched a band of insurgent members, railroaded through a scheme to hold elections in Jersey City a week earlier than scheduled-on Dec. 11 and 12, just before the new law's fair-election rules go into effect...
...been denied protections guaranteed by Landrum-Griffin. Meaney slapped Provenzano with an injunction that adjourned all union business meetings until the insurgents could exercise those rights. Result: Provenzano's forces caved in, last week signed a court stipulation postponing the election until mid-January, giving insurgents a fair chance to run a slate against the strong-arm regime. Without much of a court fight, Landrum-Griffin paid its first dividend...
...Yale production created a stir in drama circles up and down the Ivy League, drew in droves of New Haven academics and New York critics, and was shipped off to Brussels by the State Department to represent the American theatre at the World's Fair. Charles A. Fenton, Assistant Professor of English at Yale, hailed the New Haven production in the pages of the Nation as a "moving and exciting play" notable for its "superb craftsmanship." "J.B., it's a pleasure to report, is good theatre and a fine display of a writer of genuine intellectual substance who has nevertheless...