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The Administration would have no objection, Dulles continued, if Congress specified that Congress could terminate the authorization for the use of troops or freehanded spending of aid funds at any time. The President was willing to report to Congress on the use of his powers twice a year instead of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Middle East Debate (Contd.) | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Here and there some discrepancies crept into the account. A few years ago the Methodist stewards had to remove Rose as church treasurer for the unbankerlike reason that his accounts were too careless ly handled. He was careless in other ways, too. Many was the time he would put through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Generous Lender | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

A Bonus for Votes. Several political inventions have helped spawn Uruguay's many factions. The most wondrous is the "double simultaneous ballot," which lets the voter pick the party he wants to win the major offices and at the same time choose candidates to fill these offices from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: By the Numbers | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Since World War II, Chairman Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. i mail-order house, has gone in for freehanded expansion, spent around $300 million to increase its retail outlets from 610 to 694 and another $26 million to open 24 stores in Latin America. On the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Sears Up, Wards Down | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Last week politicians of the Republican People's Party, which opposes Bayar's Democratic Party, denounced Lawyer Ball as "a tool of the oil interests," and criticized his draft as too freehanded with Turkey's oil. The investment law has also been a target for such political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Turkey Opens the Door | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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