Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take his program before the people this fall (i.e., to campaign personally with it), the President responded firmly and promptly: "If it is as good as I think it is, I would be proud to." The President's program still faces a struggle in Congress in the next fortnight, but its prospects for survival look good...
...fortnight ago, five men met in the office of Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss to express their opinions on an explosive personnel matter. Strauss spoke first, and then each of the other four commissioners had his say. At the end their decision was clear: they stood 4-1 for a vote of no confidence in Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...Judge Weinfeld, who will rule in a fortnight, lets the verdict stand, Pegler will probably take the case to a higher court...
Party-Girl Fees. Another silent witness was Andrew Frost, who was suspended a fortnight ago as assistant FHA director for New Mexico. Did he ask a contractor to throw a party, with girls, on the night of a ground-breaking ceremony? Did he attend another party at a motel in Alamogordo, N.Mex. at which a contractor supplied three girls at a cost of between $400 and $500? Did contractors pick up the tabs for two fishing trips to Mexico? Did a building supplier send him two carloads of concrete block for his own house? Frost refused to answer...
...rathskeller of Milwaukee's Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., a Koda-chrome-Color movie had its premiere last fortnight. The cast included Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Commentator Robert Trout, and a score of Negro actors. The movie's title: The Secret of Selling the Negro...