Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong membership in the Farmers Union, the left wing of farm organizations, and a substantial C.I.O. vote. It was long the personal barony of Representative Merlin Hull, whom it elected to eleven terms in Congress, six as a Progressive and five as a Republican. Though he wore the Republican label from 1947 until he died last May, Congressman Hull had voted more like a Democrat on domestic issues. In two primaries, the Republican organization had tried, unsuccessfully, to purge...
...both for usefulness and good looks. For the past three years, the museum has staged a kind of super shower, receiving thousands of new items of home furnishings through Chicago's Merchandise Mart, and selected a few hundred for good-design awards (signified by an orange and black label). Last week the museum exhibited the best of this year's crop...
Your contributing editor Alvin Josephy's junket produced an incisive report . . . However, Josephy's use of the label "progressive conservatism" is as valid as a label "conservative Communism." Conservatism, understood, needs no sugar-coated shell such as "progressive" to be palatable...
Marciano is not a stylist. He is clumsy, except when it actually comes to knocking a man out. Then he attacks with a ferocity and sureness which have caused many of the experts to label him the fluest one-punch boxer of our time. The man who beats him must be able to held Marciano, as La Starza did for six rounds, and carry a pretty fair one-punch convincer himself. Gosh, may be there's something in those satin jackets after...
...their marketing in one place) required "one-stop stores" and "onesource suppliers." He got half of I.G.A.'s wholesalers to provide uniform-quality meats by ordering directly from packers. He persuaded more than half of them to stock prepackaged fresh fruits and vegetables, started putting out I.G.A. labeled products. Example: two months ago, an I.G.A. wholesaler in Champaign, Ill. made a deal with a local dairy to supply milk with a special I.G.A. label. Such mass purchasing helped I.G.A. stores to cut the price of milk 2? a quart to 19? and still make a 2? profit. Milk sales...