Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bangkok police ambushed five armed robbers and stripped them of their lethal weapons: two revolvers, one automatic pistol, five long, double-edged knives, three bundles of rope and a dozen lemons. The last item represents a new twist in Bangkok banditry. Armed robbers use the lemons to gag wealthy victims in daylight housebreaks...
...must by law,* the House first picked up the challenge flung by Harry Truman. Its first item of business was the President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they...
Having approved this pious declaration in spite of all the hullabaloo, the committee went on to the next item of business: the question of Russia's professional "amateurs." Russia's well-paid athletes will be forgiven all the subsidies they have already received from their Government, providing they take no more between now and the 1948 Olympics...
...next minute, Hollenbeck caught PM and the Daily Worker redhanded filching an item (which later proved erroneous) from the columns of their archenemy, the Daily News...
Easier said than done. That was demonstrated again this week when the A.M.A. gathered in Atlantic City to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Outstanding item in the celebration was a newly published 1,205-page History of the American Medical Association-1847 to 1947 (Saunders; $10). The author: Dr. Morris Fishbein...