Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regeneration. He has ordered the end of legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time not long past when Sarit closed nightclubs in another way- as the last customer. He has concentrated on a new constitution with Gaullist overtones, a new law to encourage foreign investment, and on measures to bring down the cost of living (in one month alone...
...most unpopular member, has had fist fights with at least three colleagues; Tennessee's equally terrible-tempered Senator, the late Kenneth McKellar, once threatened to gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week) and one of its ablest. Brought to Washington in 1911 as aide to Speaker Champ Clark, Lawyer Cannon became parliamentarian, began compiling his monumental Procedure and Precedents, by which the House still does business. In 1922 Cannon was elected to the House from Speaker Clark...
AFTER long and thoughtful deliberation, the five members of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission last week dissented from President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles on a critical point of U.S. foreign policy. The point: the President's decision, effective since midnight Oct. 31, to suspend all U.S. nuclear tests for one year, and to continue suspension if there was a prospect of reaching a workable stop-test agreement with the Russians at Geneva. The AEC's great concern: test stoppage without foolproof safeguards might undermine the U.S. nuclear power that had kept the world's peace...
Despite the shortage of brown shirts, the Army of American Aristocrats (AAA) will continue midnight manoeuvres on the Flea Club lawn, Brig.-Gen. Asmond Hawskin '59 announced yesterday...
...sale. Jack Knight pleaded "personal reasons" for dropping the biggest link in his chain. He has had a heavy heart since his youngest son. Frank, who was being groomed to take over the empire, died at 30 last spring of a brain tumor. After 40 years of answering the midnight bell. Jack Knight wanted to "relax a little." To the remaining Knight papers, he sent assurances that he had no intention of liquidating the chain...