Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Theodore Bilbo died of cancer last summer (TIME, Sept. i), it did not mean that Mississippi was out of demagogues. Poodle-haired Congressman John E. Rankin automatically succeeded him. Rankin thought he might succeed almost as easily to Bilbo's seat in the U.S. Senate. Apparently he thought wrong...
...Brazilian Congress seemed to agree with Rio's press. "We gave our support ... to the Government's attitude toward Russia," cried Senator Ivo de Aquino, "but that does not mean we condone acts of violence against any organization, particularly against the press, which by our laws is guaranteed full liberty." Following the outlawing of the Communist Party, Senator de Aquino had sponsored the Government's controversial bill to toss Communist jobholders out of elective office. Now that bill faced a tough battle...
...money from 1943 through 1946. But it had slipped into the red in its last fiscal year, chiefly because of heavy spending for promotion. It is continuing the spending, and "does not expect to turn the profit corner this year." Weeks knew that soaring paper and production costs might mean hard times ahead. But he hopes that the promotion splurge and the Atlantic's color (and photographs he plans to put on covers) will help it to hit 200,000 and bring in more advertising...
Naturally, all these things mean nothing if the Crimson can best Yale tomorrow. The Blue appears to be the team to beat. Anson Gardner, Linton Baldwin and George Wade are the three strongest EII runners, and judging from performance against a common opponent, Columbia, Yale would seem to have an edge on Princeton. Yale trimmed Columbia 26 to 29, while the Tigers lost out to the same squad, 44 to 40, in a trl meet which Penn...
...Phillips Petroleum Co. Short of crude, it offered producers 20? a barrel above the current price. Within a few days, scores of other U.S. refineries had been forced to follow Phillips' lead or lose out on their oil. But no oilman thought that the increased price would mean more oil. Four months ago, Big Jersey's President Eugene Holman had talked down a price rise as a production incentive. By holding the line then, Jersey had temporarily forced the entire industry to hold the price line (TIME, June...