Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent attack, signed by thirty-four atomic scientiste, on the McCarren Internal Security Law was well timed. The Presidential Committee investigating American Immigration Policy is ending a nation-wide tour, and it is important to impress the Committee with the inadequacies and dangers of existing policies...
Police checked so thoroughly that business fell off sharply in restaurants normally used by politicians to impress constituents. But it was not long before the politicians were getting around the rules. One candidate hit upon the idea of driving his hired car into a ditch every time he saw a group of farmers, then paying the farmers 100 yen each to haul him out, chatting all the while about himself and his platform. Police reported 972 violations of the election laws, including 473 cases of vote buying. Thirteen unsuccessful candidates were thrown into jail the day after the election. Among...
Early Bird. Wisconsin-born and educated, "Chick" Allyn has taken National a long way since, as a youth of 22, he got a job at the company's Dayton, Ohio headquarters. Thinking to impress the boss, he got to work at 7:45 a.m. the first day. He was sharply told: "At National we start at 6:30." In three years Early Bird Allyn was assistant controller, in four, controller. At 27 he was made a director, and twelve years ago, at 49, president...
Sickly little Gilbert Godard, a grocer's assistant, did not impress his neighbors in Chaumont (near Dijon) as the kind of man who might make a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin at Lourdes. Twice married, once divorced, he had never been seen at Mass. Nonetheless, it looked to a lot of pious folk in Chaumont last week as if Gilbert Godard, pilgrim to Lourdes, had been granted a miracle...
...Inside the Field House guys were going around shaking hands, asking about each other's summer jobs. Most of them had taken construction jobs. There was tape all over the place, as the sophomores went around getting the strips with their names on it for their jerseys. "Have to impress the boss somehow," one of them said...