Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was an insurance company called John Hancock, and it was a proud kind of company. It was especially proud of its namesake--a bold man unafraid of opinions, who signed a document the world of his time was quick to label "subversive." So proud of him was the company that it told of his principles in full page advertisements in magazines...
...city of Twin Falls, which, from your article, is the parent city of Jerome . . . is situated 14 miles south of Jerome . . . True, Twin Falls is the wholesale center of this entire area, including Jerome, but to label Jerome as its satellite slot-machine town is just plain poor reporting to put it mildly. I feel that your article was written by an anti-slot-machine propagandist...
...that the die was cast, Magsaysay spoke plainly: "The government is full of crooks and grafters ... I resigned not as a millionaire but as a poor man." Although he still wore the label of the Liberal Party, his resignation made him a leading candidate to oppose Liberal Quirino on the ticket of the opposition Nacionalista Party. Leader Jose Laurel, a mortal political enemy of Elpidio Quirino, has already renounced his own ambitions for the nomination, if Magsaysay would run, and renewed his pledge last week: "I launched the candidacy of Ramon Magsaysay," said he, "and personally am committed to support...
Listen for the Throb. At Columbia, the A & R man is spade-bearded, sagacious Mitchell William (Mitch) Miller (TIME Aug. 20, 1951), a long-hair (Eastman School) who for the last two years has guided his label to the No. 1 position among pop-record producers. Once a week he throws open the doors of his audition room in the hope of hearing a tune that is "right" for one of his stable of singers-Johnnie Ray (Cry), Jimmy Boyd (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus), Frankie Lame (High Noon). Jo Stafford (Jambalaya), or Clooney. In four or five hours...
...cacao. Still feeling a little hungry, she then ordered another portion of Mozzarella. With the same verve and energy, she keeps the long-distance wires hot to some 60 disk jockeys, as well as to her sister Betty (a nightspot singer who records on the Coral label) and several other members of the Clooney and Guilfoyle families of Maysville...