Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pete" Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch brought up the case of James Finnegan, St. Louis collector of internal revenue who is under indictment for taking bribes to fix taxpayers' accounts. Wasn't he exposed before the executive department acted? Didn't Finnegan testify that Truman even asked him to stay on the job? Truman snapped that he had consistently backed Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's request for Finnegan's resignation. Checking back, reporters found that in his Oct. 11 press conference Truman had said his recollection on the point was hazy...
...children of Pueblo also got fascinated being with "Pop" Spann. Each morning at opening time, he was there in his old striped trousers and black bow tie, waiting to greet them. If they cut themselves, he would bandage them. If someone broke a bicycle, he could always fix it. And when they wanted him to play with them, he was always willing, even though it meant staying long after closing time to get his own work done...
...organization of a durable peace. The average citizen is not for Ike because of his warm handshake or ingratiating smile. He is for him because of the cold-blooded judgment that Ike knows more about war & peace than anybody else. They believe he's the doctor that can fix what's wrong...
When Fair Deal trustbusters three years ago charged nine of the biggest U.S. paint companies with conspiring to fix prices, seven of the accused pleaded nolo contendere and paid $5,000 fines apiece. Only E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and the Glidden Co. decided to fight the charge. During a 50-day jury trial in Pittsburgh's federal district court, Du Pont and Glidden argued that they had exchanged price information but had not fixed prices. Their licensing of patents on lacquer, they insisted, was well within...
...good over the case of Drake Halfback Johnny Bright. When conference officials refused to take any action in the slugging that broke his jaw (TIME, Nov. 5 et. seq.), Drake withdrew from the conference, was promptly followed by Bradley University (which has three players awaiting sentence in the basketball fix scandal...