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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter and recurring debate in U.S. history concerns the money supply. In the 1870s and '80s national elections were fought on the issue of tight v. easy money; new parties-the Populists, the Green-backers-sprang up whose primary function was to argue for a looser money supply. William Jennings Bryan, Boy Orator of the Platte, won his reputation and the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896 with a plea for easier money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Great Credit Debate | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

ECONOMY DRIVE to get the U.S. Government out of business will pick up steam this year. After stalling last year, the plan for the Pentagon to discontinue 52 business-type operations (including 19 office-equipment repair shops, nine auto-repair shops) is getting a green light from the House Appropriations Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...would be a better Professor of Applied Golfing Tactics than Mr. Ben Hogan, recently retired world's champion professional golfer? Mr. Hogan could give his students skull practice in Burr A, set up a driving range in Memorial Hall, a putting green in Houghton's rotunds, and practice chip shots into the balcony from the first floor of the Union. With such a difficult course to learn on and such unexcelled instruction, there's no telling where Mr. Hogan's students would end up. They might even be President...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

...Hayes had played Margaret, the child who "might-have-been," opposite William Gillette. On TV she was the world-sick Mrs. Dearth who gets a chance to relive her life and does even worse than before. Helen Hayes played with authority and was well-supported by Franchot Tone, Martyn Green and Lori March. But teen-ager Susan Strasberg-in Helen's old role of Margaret-nearly stole the show in a beautifully stylized scene in Barrie's -enchanted forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Personal Reply. In Cleveland, Mrs. Loretta Giarizzo, 70, in a $25,000 suit against House Painter Stanley Gonsior, charged that he painted her arms green when she criticized the work he was doing on her garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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