Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cash in Small Bills. Daniel Bolich was a conspicuous exception. Witnesses testified before a House subcommittee last week that until he resigned last November as Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Washington, Bolich had a $12,000 salary and a much higher standard of living. Item: for 18 months in Washington, he had lived in a $20-a-day hotel suite...
Before the agreement between the Japanese and Americans was made public, the West German government mysteriously got hold of a copy, paid a translator to hurry it into German, and compared it, item by item, with the "contractual peace agreement" West Germany is working out with its occupiers. Conclusion: the Japanese got a slightly better deal...
...least nine dog-food manufacturers now put chlorophyll in their products to keep Fido smelling nice. The prize item: insoles doused with chlorophyll to keep feet smelling fresh...
Over here in Korea, we don't get too much news from home, and what news we do get is usually from Stars and Stripes, the G.I. paper. I picked up a copy today containing an item about some sort of "face-slapping" incident. It seems that some Harvard students slapped each other 17,288 times. How silly can people...
...familiar with all of these," said Senator Brewster briskly, "but I have the records of this $10,000 item . . . which is covered by my check of May 8, 1950, I believe." His explanation: as chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1950, he thought it advisable to help out California's Richard Nixon and North Dakota's Milton Young in their primary campaigns. Under campaign rules, Brewster was not allowed to spend the committee's money in primaries to help one Republican against another, but he felt that these were exceptional cases and he personally borrowed...