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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beta Kappa Key, one of the last remaining supports of the pocket watch industry, has undergone some change since 1776. Originally, it was a square silver watch-key with a hand in the lower right corner pointing to three starts in the upper left corner. This symbolized ambition...
...House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps presented his 1949-50 budget. Under his severe guidance, Britain had sweated, toiled, and made a sensational recovery (TIME, March 28). Now, the nation felt, it was due for something more than the lights of London. Britons wanted lower taxes, continuation of cheap food, cheaper clothes and tobacco...
Suzanne learned to love medieval music as a child. Her famous father used to teach a choral group in lower Manhattan, take Suzanne along to substitute for missing singers. When she went to Germany in 1928 for more study, she visited family friend Physicist Albert Einstein, decided, after hearing Einstein's stepdaughter Margot play the lute, that that...
...song comes not from the text but from the melody." The Kansas City Star picked up the same tune in an editorial: "Nobody need bother with singing the words because the citizenry-we hope-won't be expected to remember them anyway." Last week, Missouri's lower house apparently agreed, approved Snyder's bill...
...battle between the reformers and the politicians continues on Beacon Hill. This Wednesday afternoon the lower house of the State Legislature will consider Senate Bill 5, which would outlaw proportional representation as a method of voting in this state. The bill is only one of many proposed in this session to do the same thing, but the others either remain in committee or have already been reported out unfavorably to the legislature. Senator Joseph A. Melley introduced this measure in support of a petition by the "Massachusetts Citizens Committee for the Repeal of Proportional Representation," headed by Miss Edna Spencer...