Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Internal Revenue office ruled specifically on the bino-type pinball machines, not the kind in the three restaurants, the firm's owner claimed. Hence, he continued, the City Licensing Board's decision is unjustified...
...visit to Karachi came virtually to its close Tuesday night with a speech in which Eisenhower posed the hope of improved international relations but made clear the United States' firm stand beside Pakistan in upholding free nations against any aggression...
While no time schedule has been announced, instructions to bidders state that they must submit estimates by Dec. 23, and aim for completion within a year. The four-story building was designed by the firm of Griswold, Boyden, Wylde & Ames with speed and inexpensiveness of construction uppermost in mind, according in Henry J. Muller, Deputy Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...
Some people think less of him. Says Arnold Shaw of the music-publishing firm of E. B. Marks: "Someone like Clark is a one-man trust." Adds Marty Mills of Mills Music, Inc.: "People know that Clark will lay it on [i.e., plug a song] if he's got any stake...
Soundly beaten in his candidacy for Governor of California last year, Bill Knowland slipped quietly into working harness on the Tribune, which has been in his family for 44 years. The Tribune seemed more than ready for a firm Knowland hand on the editorial side. At 86, Joseph Russell Knowland. Bill's father and the Tribune's publisher, was pretty well out of action. Bill Knowland's brother Russ, 57, was running the business end. And Bill's son Joe, 29. while willing, still needed editorial seasoning. Leaderless, the Tribune had drifted into some bad habits...