Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prepared Position. Faced with a steel strike on New Year's Day, Harry Truman telephoned Phil Murray in Pittsburgh just before Christmas, and asked Murray to hold off. Submit the dispute to the Wage Stabilization Board, said the President, or the Government will step in with a Taft-Hartley injunction against you. After pondering briefly, Murray accepted the WSB, which was, after all, like falling back to a prepared position...
...than two years ago they sold their thriving Chicago Journal of Commerce to the Wall Street Journal (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951) because, said Editor Bernard J. Ridder, "they offered us more than it was worth, and there's a limit to how far you'll go to hold on to something." Last week the Ridders were in a buying mood. Into booming San Jose, Calif, they went to take over the San Jose evening News and morning Mercury (total circ. 72,000) for a reported price of $3,700,000 from the newspapers' present owners...
...first chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Dr. Edwin G. Nourse had a simple definition of the group's duties: hold an economic thermometer under the nation's tongue and report the facts dispassionately. But in 1949 Nourse quit, saying that the council was fast becoming just another political weapon of the Democratic Administration. Since then, under Chairman Leon Keyserling, the board has often seemed to check up on the nation's economic health by taking Harry Truman's pulse...
...halfway mark in its twelve-month job of finding out what needs to be done to jack up U.S. medical facilities, the President's Commission on Health Needs of the Nation (TIME, Jan. 14) took advice from Harry Truman himself. It decided to go on the road, hold "whistle stop" public hearings in eight major cities beginning next month. In most places, organized doctors were lukewarm to the idea, but in Houston they boiled over, denounced the commission as a political maneuver and a waste of time & money. The commission figured its Texas hearing might have to be held...
...Arthurian tripe about the Holy Grail," Novelist Costain has written his own version of what happened to the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. His hero is Basil of Antioch, a low-born artisan hired by Joseph of Arimathea to fashion a silver casing to hold the homely original. While young Basil is still wrestling with clay models, he also begins a long wrestle with sacred and profane love in the persons of 1) Deborra, the rich Christian girl he marries, and 2) Helena, a toothsome pagan baggage who has bewitched him with a love potion...