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Word: licensees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The only time he got his dander up at all in public during the week was over, of all things, traffic laws. Before the President's Conference on Highway Safety, Truman condemned lax state drivers' examination laws, including those of his own Missouri. "Terrible!" cried the President. "Why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Good-Will Week | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

The ruling grew out of the Mayflower Broadcasting Corp.'s unsuccessful application in 1941 to take over the radio frequency used by the Yankee Network's Worcester station WAAB. FCC had been blasting WAAB for broadcasting "socalled editorials . . . urging the election of various candidates . . . or supporting one side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sinking of the Mayflower | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Like a smart tennis player, Cyrus Eaton had more than once caught the Securities & Exchange Commission flat-footed in its long battle to revoke the underwriting license of his investment house, Otis & Co. SEC charged that Eaton had instigated a suit against Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and then used the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Cy's Set | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Change of Heart. In Knoxville, Term., Alice Emert Wells, married ten times before, returned marriage license No. 11 to he county clerk's office with an explanation: "I got cold feet." In Nashville, Deputy Clerk Jimmy O'Connell reported that a man turned in his marriage license, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Playwright George S. Kaufman, 59 (Of Thee I Sing, You Can't Take It with You), and British-born Actress Leueen MacGrath, 34, who played the friendly secretary in the Mayfair, Broadway and movie versions of Edward, My Son, applied for a marriage license in Doylestown, Pa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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