Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office, just as a forlorn lemon tree on the terrace began to bear fruit, Scelba remarked: "I didn't think this lemon tree would ever blossom, but ..." A few days later, he was Premier. He has survived for 14 months through nine votes of confidence (winning margin only last week: 67 votes) despite his shaky Christian Democrat coalition, slim margin and the devious opposition of party Secretary-General Amintore Fanfani. After attending a Commons session in London this year, Scelba, who must contend with tossed insults, ink pots and punches in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, sighed...
...Wrong. The week's first witness was Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board, watchdog of the nation's credit and onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange. Previous witnesses, notably Harvard's Galbraith, had testified that margin requirements should be raised, perhaps as high as 100%. Did Martin agree? He did not, since credit denied to the market would just move into other fields...
Galbraith recently testified before the Committee investigating the stock market and urged that margin requirements be raised. Yesterday Capehart charged that Galbraith was a man with Communist philosophies and by his testimony had "discredited American industry and the American economy...
...Bailey case is a precarious precedent for the Justice Department, however. One of the three Circuit Court judges, in dissent, held that a loyalty dismissal is a punitive action and entitles the accused to full judicial safeguards. And the supreme Court affirmed the Bailey decision by the narrowest possible margin, a 4 to 4 tie. While none of the high tribunal's opinions were officially announced, several of the justices have since gone out of their way to assail the Bailey case verdict. Justice Black has written that the case "demonstrates how the entire loyalty program grossly deprives government employees...
Miss Albright, world titlist, led Tuesday after the compulsory school figures, counting 60 percent, and increased her margin in the free skating despite two falls...