Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gemini. The Class of 1930 will vote not to hold a reunion, with one Alumni Association officer explaining, "Their class spirit just never seemed to jell." The liquor, already purchased, will be donated to the New York Mirror's list of the 100 seediest families...
...start of the meeting was slightly jarred by the eager-beavering of FOAdministrator Harold Stassen, who bounced around calling Democratic elders "Mr. Chairman" to the annoyance of their Republican opposite numbers, who technically still hold their congressional committee chairmanships...
...managerial function, Carmine De Sapio is a man to watch. Averell Harriman and New York City Mayor Robert Wagner hold two of the nation's most important political offices-and both are immensely beholden to De Sapio. Moreover, De Sapio's probable control of the largest bloc of delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention in 1956 gives him a rich chunk of political capital that he can be expected to invest shrewdly...
OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTIES are on the way out. The Employers' Association of Chicago took a survey of 265 companies, reported that less than half will hold parties this year. Nearly 40 companies that had office parties last year will discontinue them in favor of extra time off, gifts to charity or parties for people who really enjoy them: employees' children...
...hustle-bustle of the H-bomb age, the North American Hutterites* are remarkable for their ascetic isolation and puritanical dress. Scattered in some 100 farm settlements across the Dakotas, Montana and western Canada, 8,000 Hutterites live under a strict religious communism: no member may hold public office; all property is jointly owned...