Word: handicraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...D.A.R., which met in Washington last week, was in for another disappointment. Although they passed resolutions condemning some of President Eisenhower's programs, e.g., the atoms-for-peace plan, the Daughters were ready with a whole tableful of surprise gifts for the Eisenhowers, mostly the products of D.A.R. handicraft projects. When Presidential Aide Bernard Shanley brought regrets that the President (who was busy at the White House) and the First Lady (who was at the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg) could not come, there was a moment of silence, and then only a barely polite smattering of applause. Sniffed President...
...regret it. Amin Didi was chock-full of reform plans-he wrote a new anthem to the tune of Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain (pop. 90,000) southwest of Ceylon...
...past months the Office of Price Stabilization has fearlessly taken controls off such items as sphygmo-oscillometers, Eskimo handicraft, canned rattlesnake meat, Easter-egg dye, truffles, cat beds, wigs, shoehorns, comb cleaners and incense burners. Last week it broadened the vistas of free enterprise. It removed price ceilings on "clay targets used in artificial shooting" and on "non-edible foods," e.g., wax apples and bananas...
...P.B.H. social service committee keeps 33 houses supplied with College men who conduct handicraft classes, coach sports like swimming, boxing and basketball, and assist the professional social workers who run the houses...