Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state's troubles were largely due to initiative 172, a pension measure put over last autumn by the Communist-dominated Washington Pension Union and its president, a crafty, smooth-talking party-liner named William J. Pennock, 33. Under its terms the old folks not only get money for mortgage payments, rent, tax assessments, insurance, food & clothing, but free medical & dental care, free hospitalization, free home-nursing service and free medicines, glasses and artificial limbs...
Many psychiatrists have a fairly fixed idea that the world is badly bent, and a set conviction that psychiatry can straighten it out. Last week, in Geneva, Danish Psychiatrist P. J. Reiter suggested to the second annual assembly of the World Federation for Mental Health that every top official in all branches of government in all countries "ought to have his head examined." A physical checkup, thought Dr. Reiter, would be a good idea too. Examinations should be conducted by boards composed of a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a sociologist and a physician. Of course, added Dr. Reiter, before ruling...
Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...
Some of the examples of control were old stuff. It would surprise few that U.S. aluminum-producing facilities were completely dominated by Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and-Henry Kaiser's Permanente Metals; that the Big Four tobacco companies-American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, R. J. Reynolds, P. Lorillard-owned 87.8% of all the industry's manufacturing facilities; that Armour and Swift controlled 54.7% of U.S. meat-packing capital assets...
Last week, under able President William J. Murray Jr., McKesson passed a milestone. Announcing that sales for the year ending June 30 were a record $356.6 million, with a net $8,766,345, the company declared the first special dividend (25?) in its 116-year history...