Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Stevenson took painful pains to scotch the idea. Said he: "I am not a candidate; I will not be a candidate, and I don't want the nomination." The tone was familiar. There was once a candidate who said, "I do not dream myself fit for the job-temperamentally, mentally or physically. And I ask therefore that you all abide by my wishes not to nominate me." This was Adlai Stevenson, speaking to his Illinois delegation six days before he accepted his first Democratic presidential nomination...
...elections, the one-house Grand National Assembly, which is dominated by Menderes' Democratic Party, rushed through appropriations for new highways and schools and even repairs on mosques in farm villages. It declared a one-year moratorium on $345 million in farmers' debts to the government. This was familiar pork-barrel politics. But in his determination to win the October election, Menderes added another touch. His supporters rammed through a law that forbids Turkey's three other parties to form an election coalition against Menderes. The law prevents candidates from changing parties and bars mixed tickets...
...gave service too. In the dreary Depression days of strikes and lockouts, Hoffa's springy figure and his vibrant personality (expressed with a wealth of the four-letter words) became a familiar sight. His commodity was spirit. He found men to form picket lines, sometimes scraped up money to pay for their bread. He toured meetings of locals like an itinerant troubleshooter ("I know how to coordinate all the locals, how to use them to give full strength wherever we need it"), wore out his share of shoe leather on countless picket lines ("I was picked...
Professional Yankee haters had been singing a familiar lament: "The Yanks are trying to buy another pennant." There were rumors that the pitching-poor New Yorkers were trying to buy Sal ("The Barber") Maglie from the outpaced Dodgers. This week the rumors became fact. In New York, at least, even anti-Yanks had reason to be thankful. Their Giants were taking it on the lam; their Dodgers were talking flight and fading fast. The Yanks were not only sticking around, but had bolstered their promise of a World Series, divided with Milwaukee's high-flying Braves...
Much can be said for the inside board, to which many big and forward-looking firms still cling steadfastly. They argue that only the president and his executives-men intimately familiar with the corporation's daily operations-can make swift, sure policy decisions. International Shoe Co., the largest U.S. shoe manufacturer, has a 100% inside board to run its highly technical business; the U.S. petroleum industry also leans to inside boards, whose members know all the tricks and pitfalls of their risky business. Says Harmon Whittington, president of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton broker...