Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtaxed. In Atlanta, audits revealed that Georgia's Comptroller General Zack D. Cravey spent $1,180 for an office desk, $295 for a posture chair, $28 for an enlargement of a picture with the inscription: "DO YOU WORK TOO HARD...
...fewest? What Prime Minister served the most consecutive years?- Within 24 hours after the announcement that British elections would be held Oct. 8. copies of TIME'S "General-Election Argument Settler," a handy reference wheel with the answers to these and 250 other questions about 31 elections and 23 Prime Ministers since the parliamentary-reform bill of 1832, were distributed to government officials, party headquarters, university political clubs, educators, libraries, and other groups throughout the British Commonwealth. TIME previously distributed its "Argument Settler" for the 1956 U.S. elections and the 1957 Canadian elections, hopes the 1959 British wheel will...
...Sidwell Friends School in Washington ("Blessed with that charm, the certainty to please," said the student quarterly), put in his freshman year at Swarthmore before returning to Moscow University. Troyanovsky first appeared in the Kremlin big picture as Stalin's interpreter in the 1947 conference with U.S. General George C. Marshall, later journeyed about the world with Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan...
...accused in a sensational trial of defrauding the government by accepting $53,000 in bribes from Munitions Makers Murray and Henry Garsson, served nine months and 13 days of his sentence, protested his innocence to the end, although some of the nation's top brass (including General Dwight Eisenhower) testified against him; in Prestonburg...
...Action (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). U.N. Ambassador Lodge will pass the word on Khrushchev's visit and the approaching General Assembly sessions...