Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reformer Morris had sent long questionnaires to several thousand high Federal officials, asking them about their private finances. The House subcommittee wondered if well-to-do Lawyer McGrath had yet filled out his copy of the questionnaire. Answer: "I haven't decided whether I'll fill it out or whether I will advise anybody else in the Government...
Parliament is suspended for the moment, and the huge Wafd majority in both Houses is powerless. The King's men can hold power for a while, buttressed by the army, the police, the curfew and tight press censorship. But the King's men haven't much time. The cry of "Down with the King!" is already being heard in student demonstrations...
...congressional opponents of the deposed Prío regime, many of whom were cynically prepared to vote him all the constitutionality he might want, Batista had only scorn. "We haven't even considered their legalistic formulas," he said. "They don't fit in with the revolutionary realities of the situation." Batista would be President again-but he would name the time, and write the ticket...
...according to Manhattan's Fashion Academy: Mrs. Estes Kefauver; Cinemactress Ann Sheridan; Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen; Metropolitan Soprano Marguerite Piazza; Radio Songstress Jo Stafford; Musicomedy Star Vivian (Guys and Dolls) Blaine; Nina Warren, daughter of California's governor. Commented Mrs. Kefauver: "Oh, my goodness! I haven't even bought a new spring suit...
Ticket Printers. The New Haven railroad put into service in Manhattan's Grand Central Station two new automatic ticket-printing machines. Made by the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., the printers can turn out 650 different tickets to 160 destinations. The printers save the railroad the cost of stocking big inventories of tickets and in a matter of minutes total up ticket sales, a job now done tediously by hand...