Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gold is the label, red and black the hinged cardboard box. Inside, recipients of this Christmas package will find two bestsellers: a King James Bible in imitation leather, zippered open and shut with a plastic ball containing a mustard seed;* a red and gold imitation leather copy of The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Price of this Treasury of Faith: $6.95. "There is no substitute for the Bible," writes Dr. Peale on the box, but it is clear which book he expects people to read first. "I hope that readers will be encouraged," he adds...
...Eisenhower Administration's flexible (75% to 90%) support program "should have a longer trial." Louisiana Democrat Allen J. Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, says that a return to 90% supports "would not stand a ghost of a chance to pass the Senate." Ezra Benson has a label for the old 90% plan: "a bankrupt program...
...purely altruistic activities of Frank Walsh and the Soviet team clearly fall under the label of "amateurism," especially since Walsh will give the proceeds of the tour to the Hall of Fame. In opposing the tour, therefore, the A.A.U. has surpassed its legitimate authority. Its true function is to ensure that only true amateurs compete in amateur athletics. Once the Russians have complied with this condition, the A.A.U. no longer has any place in the matter, and should not hamper their tour. Ira D. Benson...
...Modesto's revelation is a modern snake oil cure a wild blend of How to Win Friends and influence People with what Riesman calls the "other-directed" personality. Bottled under the label Contralism, author Harrington's idea is not a now one, but it is a vivid satire on the life of the conformist and his descent into modiocrity...
...nation continued "political offensives aimed at subverting free governments." Equally sharp was his charge that the veto power had been abused in the Security Council, and his recommendation that the proposed conference to review the U.N. Charter should reconsider the veto procedure on admission of new members. His label of "evil" for the record of the Chinese Communist regime showed that the U.S. had not stepped down from its position that...