Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herr Heuss, jovial, loquacious and witty, has the nimble mind of a hard-digging student. In his 65 years he has been a professor of political science, a biographer, an art critic, a newspaper publisher and an amateur artist. He is an old-fashioned German politician, from his high white collar to his economic liberalism of the Manchester laissez-faire school...
More tragic was the reaction of 73-year-old Dr. Alberto F. Jordan, presiding judge of the Buenos Aires civil high court. When a Senate telegram told him that he had not been confirmed, the old man went into his study, pulled out a revolver and shot himself. The Peronista press ignored his death. Even Buenos Aires' once-great and independent La, Prensa played it pianissimo. In an obituary praising Jordan's 40 years on the bench, La Prensa reported he had died "unexpectedly...
...five major daily newspapers came to an abrupt end last week. The settlement closely fitted the publishers' terms. President Woodruff Randolph of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union told his strike-weary printers to accept a $10 weekly wage boost (to $95.50)-the same offer he had high-handedly ordered them to reject six months ago, after Chicago's Local 16 had approved it. The strikers had lost $13 million in wages, and the I.T.U. had paid $1 i million in strike benefits and costs. Consensus of the printers: "We took a beating...
...crusade against gambling, the Atlanta Journal (circ. 246,000) last week printed the names and addresses of 1,500 owners and operators of slot machines, which are illegal in Georgia. The Journal got the names by checking on who had paid the federal stamp tax on the machines. High on the list was Atlanta's Capital City Club. President of the Capital City Club: George C. Biggers. President of the Atlanta Journal: George C. Biggers...
...been allowed to publish, the occupation authorities had not taken away their ownership of the presses on which most of the licensed papers were printed under five-year leases. Democratic publishers feared that the new publishers could break the leases and force them out of business. This week U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy joined the British and French commissioners in strengthening new laws designed to keep a curb on the German press. Chief provisions : stringent penalties for disseminating undemocratic propaganda or undermining Allied prestige...