Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictated for his Law Day speech. In St. Louis, a Negro law student named John Alexander Madison and a Negro policeman named Dred Scott Madison studied their parts for the Law Day re-enactment of the historic trial of their great-grandfather, Dred Scott.* In Seattle, Attorney Ford Elvidge was "digging into books I haven't cracked in 40 years," looking up English legal history for his Law Day speech. In Charleston, S.C., Veteran Lawyer Robert M. Figg pondered the difference in meaning be tween Communism's May Day and the U.S.'s Law Day: "I take...
Philanthropic foundations in 1956-57 handed out 39% of the gifts-$319 million. Next most generous source: alumni, who donated $101 million. Grants and gifts tabbed for faculty salaries (including the vast Ford Foundation gifts) rose 506% from 1954-55; next highest gain was in gifts for basic research...
Soldier Schweik was the ninth opera and the only premiere of the ten scheduled by the New York City Opera in its five-week all-American season. Still to come: Carlisle Floyd's Susannah (TIME, Oct. 8, 1956). Underwritten by $105,000 from the Ford Foundation, the season spans the last 20 years of U.S. operatic production with a repertory drawn from more than 200 submitted works. Among the composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus...
...ailing auto industry, the Chrysler dividend was a casualty. President Lester Lum Colbert reported a first-quarter loss of $15,139,802, almost $2 a share, and reluctantly announced a cut in the dividend from 75? to 25? to conserve cash. Ford did much better, though its earnings dropped from $1.85 in the first quarter of last year to 42? in the first quarter of this year. Nevertheless, it will pay its next quarterly dividend...
...current fashion for sexual confusion." Too much snobbery? "I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props ... I myself abhor Wine-and-Foodmanship. My own favorite food is scrambled eggs." Yet, though he has never been known to kick anyone in the groin, and fancies his own Ford Thunderbird over a Bentley, Author Fleming strikes his friends as "awfully like Bond really, appearance, clothes, Floris bath essence...