Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grammar-school-educated Howard Johnson has good reason to love ice cream. As a youth, he sold cigars for his father around Boston, gave it up to buy a drugstore in home town Wollaston, Mass., soon was $40,000 in debt. "What I really wanted," says Johnson, "was to have a product I could call by my own name." He settled on ice cream, made it attractive by doubling the butterfat content, using natural flavors, serving heaping cones. In 1929 he opened his first restaurant in Quincy, Mass., lost money -but continued to add new ice-cream flavors and open...
Capitalist by Accident. The millionaire proprietor of this Midwest publishing empire never intended to be a capitalist. Son of an immigrant Russian-Jewish bookbinder, Emanuel Julius left school with a grammar school education, drifted around in the free-thinking Socialist currents of his time. He tried reporting for Socialist newspapers in Milwaukee and New York, in 1915 went out to Girard, Kans., to help resuscitate Appeal to Reason, a moribund Socialist periodical. After marrying Marcet Haldeman, a Girard banker's daughter, he borrowed $250,000 from her to buy the paper...
...minute "turn" (in the House) or a ten-minute "folio" (in the Senate) on the floor, then hustles down to the official reporters' office to read his notes into a dictating machine. An unwritten custom for both House and Senate reporters is to clean up little slips of grammar, fact or taste made by the solons. Once a Congressman leaped to his feet in a farm debate, said that the time had come to take the bull by the tail and look the situation squarely in the face. As discreetly as possible, the Record reporter straightened things...
...considered him a cheeky, young know-it-all. Next year he won a year's scholarship at Ruskin College at Oxford, where he sat at the feet of such eminents as G.D.H. Cole, Kenneth Robinson, and Margery Perham, and breathed the heady socialism of Harold Laski's Grammar of Politics. "I still have the greatest feelings for Oxford," Mboya says. "It was a very impressive year." And, he adds, it impressed Europeans back in Kenya. With new confidence, he went to the U.S. for a lecture tour, met Walter Reuther, George Meany and David Dubinsky, and went home...
...Council also cited Jakobson as "an internationally-honored critic of many literatures" and praised his work in history, mythology, music, grammar, and folklore...