Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOHN L. PETERS...
...times, his answers set off uproarious waves of laughter. At one point he complained that musicians were too poor even to patronize the nightclubs in which they played. Illinois Republican Thomas L. Owens quoted back a statement of President Harry Truman's that everybody had a lot of spending money. Petrillo beamed. "I don't contradict the President," he said. "After all, as a piano player, he's a potential member of the union...
...dried deal that 66-year-old Louis St. Laurent would succeed him. There were other able (and younger) cabinet ministers in the running: Douglas Abbott (Finance), Brooke. Claxton (Defense), J. L. Ilsley (Justice) and James Gardiner (Agriculture). But the word had got around that St. Laurent had received the nod from Mackenzie King, and that alone put him far out in front. Besides, his succession would preserve the growing tradition of alternating
...first seen Ernest Ansermet (rhymes with ah sir may) and his black, square-cut beard 32 years ago, conducting while Nijinsky danced. It was Ansermet who gave the U.S. its first taste of Stravinsky's tart Petrouchka and Debussy's heady L'Après-Midi d'un Faune...
...Week's 1947 Price- Closing Earning Earnings Stock Price per Share Ratio A. M. Byers $18 $ 4.92 3.6 Consolidated Textile 13 5.69 2.3 D. L. & W. R.R. 9⅛ 1.93 4.5 Emerson Radio 23⅛ 5.65 4.1 Firestone Tire 35¾ 13.46 3.4 Martin-Parry 17¼ 5.97 2.9 Nash Kelvinator 16¼ 4.17 3.9 N.Y., Chi. & S.L. R.R. 44 17.82 2.5 Outboard Motor 21½ 4.38 4.9 Schenley 28⅜ 7.46 3.85 John B. Stetson 13¾ 3.77 3.6 Ward Baking 11¼ 3.03 3.8 Warner Bros. 11¼ 3.02 4.0 West Indies Sugar...