Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place some controls over governmental currency manipulations. Despite the objections of both the Fund and London's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Premier Schuman's government decided that this hand had to be played alone if necessary because of the fall in exports. The squabble will not help ideas of West European unity along in the face of the worst economic crisis since 1932. But the worst blow will be dealt to the hope that the bank would replace the economic law of the jungle with international cooperation...
Even with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ada Lois Sipuel, who is a Negro, couldn't get into the University of Oklahoma law school. The Court, which made up its mind in an almost unprecedented hurry, had told the State of Oklahoma to give Ada an education equal to what whites get (TIME, Jan. 19). And at least one of the judges made it plain that a law school for just one pupil is no legal education at all. But this week the Oklahoma state regents established a school of law at Oklahoma City (as part...
...Rodzinski: "I used to think the Capone mob retarded civilization in Chicago, but tonight I feel that the Orchestra Hall boys [the trustees] have made Al and his gang look like Robin Hood and his merry men. ... So they huddled upstairs and gave you the black sack. . . . God help the knowing ears of Chicago...
...money. Railroader Robert R. Young had not been too pleased with his Eagle Lion Films Inc. His films, mostly Bs, had not impressed either the critics or the public. Young thought the cure was a chain of theaters, better production and a better distributing organization. (All this may also help British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, who now has a distributing agreement with Eagle Lion.) Last week, Young liked the idea of buying RKO enough to announce...
...Wisecracks. Their great achievement was to create an atmosphere in which disputes could be settled-an example which, says Author Van Doren, could well be emulated by the United Nations today. All the things the Constitutional Convention was not help to define what it was: it was not bombastic; there was no playing to the gallery, no wisecracking, no demolishing of an opponent by invective or ridicule. The displays of learning were soon exhausted-the delegates got tired of hearing about the ancient republics. The delegates were calm, and even when they rushed articles through, their decisions were deliberate...