Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When a member of the hierarchy condemns a book or play or movie and calls on all Catholics to boycott the condemned item, the collective power of Catholicism is being used to threaten a publisher or producer or theater owner with economic ruin unless he withdraws from the market something a bishop dislikes ... In a smaller way, Catholic groups and organizations badger newspaper and magazine editors. Any mention of anything Catholic must be favorable or the heat...
Floundering Truce. Vishinsky's outburst came in the midst of his latest bellicose attempt to show himself a man of peace. He proposed a full-dress meeting of the U.N. Security Council, with Foreign Ministers sitting as delegates, to lessen world tension. First item: the Korean truce, which, he said, is now deadlocked and "floundering" at Panmunjom...
...Henry Grunewald, a shadowy Washington operator who apparently enjoyed a large and useful set of acquaintances among the influence peddlers. Theron Lamar Caudle, the ousted Assistant Attorney General, testified that it might have been Grunewald who called Chicago Attorney Abraham Teitelbaum and warned him to pay off a tidy item of $500,000 if he wanted to stay out of income-tax trouble. Charles Oliphant, the resigned Revenue Bureau counsel, admitted that he was a close friend of Grunewald and had talked to him about the Teitelbaum case. Frank Nathan and Bert Naster, the two Florida promoters identified in Teitelbaum...
...Supreme Court outlawed blanket price-fixing sections of the fair-trade laws, the biggest price war in decades burst upon the startled and delighted U.S. consumer. In Manhattan, Macy's and Gimbels sent squads of scouts to flash back the latest reductions, cut prices so fast that an item could be cut twice while a clerk was selling it. By December, many price ceilings were meaningless...
...late Moslem leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah that he had "a difficulty for every solution." The U.N. truce negotiators last week at Panmunjom felt the same way about their Communist opposite numbers. The Reds yielded to a demand that a separate subcommittee be set up to deal with Item 4 (exchange of prisoners) while the first subcommittee was still grappling with Item 3 (supervision of armistice). Soon two subcommittees were grinding away under two tents at Panmunjom. This week, there rose one note of hope: the Reds turned over a list of U.N. prisoners, reportedly including Maj. Gen. William F. Dean...