Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois (572,000 votes), while Harry Truman won the state by a slim 33,612. As governor, Stevenson sent state police out to stop commercial gambling downstate when local officials failed to act, lopped 1,300 political hangers-on off the state payroll, replaced patronage with a merit system in the state police force, overhauled the welfare program, pushed through 78 bills to streamline the state government...
...steel strike began to paralyze civilian and arms production last week, one Washingtonian suggested a new kind of seizure to end the dispute. Why not seize Presidential Assistant John Steelman and Price Boss Ellis Arnall and ship them back home to Arkansas and Georgia? The idea had some merit. Steelmakers, in the firm belief that they had a promise from Steelman for a $5.20 boost in prices, had come close to agreement with the union on wages and a form of union shop. Then Steelman withdrew the promise...
...Paris, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn presented the widow of Marshal of France Jean de Lattre de Tassigny the posthumous award of the Legion of Merit for "sustained combat operations in the struggle against Communism...
...missing men is a topic of high concern to Germans, Italians, Rumanians and Hungarians. It should be sounded loudly and endlessly before the U.N., in propaganda broadcasts and in notes to Russia. As a counteroffensive to the Russian germ warfare charge, it has the special merit of being true...
Livingston Hall, vice-Dean of the Law School, will receive a certificate of merit from his alma mater, the University of Chicago, at reunion activities in Chicago today. This year Chicago is awarding 33 of the certificates. They are given to alumni in recognition of distinguished public service...