Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filling. Since those days, except for one brief (1939-40) episode when he had his own Ragtime Band and made some famous collector's items for the Bluebird label, Muggsy has been passing most of his working time as an unspectacular, if solid, fixture in Chicago and Manhattan jazz joints. Now, at 44, and playing as well as ever, he had suddenly become one of the rages of the West Coast. With his new handpicked, six-piece combo, Muggsy filled San Francisco's Hangover Club last month, is doing equally well at Tiffany...
...E.P.T. by the simple device of expensing the excess." In the same vein, television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont, chairman of the National Conference of Growth Companies, warned: "I resent the threat of my Government taking legislative action that will stigmatize [our] profits . . . under a completely false label ... If this fictional . . . legislation goes through I should feel that it would be my duty to myself, my company and its stockholders to see that there would be no 'excess' profits on which such a tax might be levied...
...also locked the door of a room in Sloane Laboratory, a chief physic research center, and tagged a "confidential" label on it. Around Yale, the rumor is that Sloane has become the scene for theoretical atomic physics research...
...amalgam of the Mundt-Nixon, Mundt-Ferguson, McCarran, and Kilgore proposals, the McCarran Act provides for the registration of all Communists and officers of Communist groups. It requires these groups to label all their property and literature "disseminated by a Communist organization." It bars members of such organizations from obtaining passports as well as from working for the government or in defense plants...
...thing that may clinch the election for Dewey could be the few thousand anti-Dewey votes that are wasted on the American Labor Party nominee. The ALP, Vito Marcantonio's group, has been widely tagged with the Red label and is not expected to draw many votes, especially since the Korean War. However, in a really close election the marginal ballots could make the difference...