Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister, on trial for plotting to overthrow Hungary's government, was close to the end of the road. The trial itself, charged Marshal Tito last week, was part of a plot to overthrow the Yugoslav government. In a firm diplomatic note, Tito called the trial a "juridical burlesque...
...Firm Hand. In Fort Worth, investigating complaints of a disturbance, police found a 78-year-old father spanking his 48-year-old son for being drunk...
...Mather said Tito made it clear that he will stand firm against Soviet attempts to impinge on Yugoslavia's sovereignity or on Yugoslavia's experiment with a planned economy...
...than $2,000 was spent for printing and related expenses by the Council and its subsidiary organizations such as class committees, dance committees, and the Combined Charities Committee. Hundreds of these dollars could have been saved had the Council given as many printing jobs as possible to one printing firm. As it was, different Council committees had their printing done by more than a dozen different shops often without trying to find the least expensive printer; frequently without obtaining previous authorization by the Council or its treasurer. Similar lack of organization occurred in the typing, mimeographing, and printing of letters...
Albright bombards 54,000 customers all over the Southwest with as many as 250 leaflets a year, plus an annual 100-page catalogue and two supplements. He has taken a firm hold on the business of supplying Texas schools and institutions. He also buys up publishers' remainders at rock-bottom prices, dolls them up in new dustjackets, sometimes changes the titles a bit, and keeps them moving across the counters and through the mails...