Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance to hit back came last week, when North Carolina Democrat Howard Cooley offered an amendment to increase by $200 million the bartering provisions on farm-surplus shipments abroad. Northern Democrats joined Republicans in opposition and Cooley's amendment got slaughtered, 143 to 52. New Jersey's Frank Thompson expressed the feelings of most Northern Representatives when he told Cooley: "Harold, from now on I'm against anything that grows." On that basis, the House vote on the Landrum-Griffin bill may be remembered long for political results that have no apparent connection with labor reform...
Detroit. Hoffa helped Herman Kierdorf get a parole from a prison term for armed robbery, hired him as a Teamster organizer. Hoffa also found a job as a Teamster business agent for Herman's ex-convict nephew Frank, who then set about shaking down small businessmen in Flint, Mich. He was fatally burned last year while setting fire to a Flint dry-cleaning establishment (asked by the McClellan committee to name some of the hoodlums he had got rid of since becoming Teamster president, Hoffa had the gall to list the late Frank Kierdorf). Other ex-convict business agents...
...last week Chaloupe had Brazilians convinced that giving up Birrell was equivalent to giving up the Southern Cross. New York District Attorney Frank Hogan exploded, blaming the U.S. embassy in Rio for dragging its feet. "All we got from the embassy was a run-around and daily lectures on Latin American relations. We were told that our policy was not to rush the Brazilians, not to raise any anti-American feelings." In a, word, Chaloupe's whitewash had made even the U.S. embassy wonder whether urging Brazil to send Birrell home was diplomatically advisable...
...array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with time, the derring-do pulps gave way to dreary ones: Detective Story, Love Story Magazine and comic books. In 1949 Street & Smith dropped pulps altogether and turned slick...
...towns for its notions and knicknacks. It symbolizes the tremendous changes that have transformed a tradition-laden giant into one of the U.S.'s most experiment-minded retailers. Eighty years old this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world's largest variety-store chain (3,290 stores). The company is now adding new stores on the average of one every three working days, the greatest expansion program of its history...