Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model Republican may have the organized influence to win the party's nomination, but he'll get about one in one hundred of the total popular vote when election time comes...
Politics. A longtime Democrat and friend of Texas Democratic politicos (including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn), Anderson backed Ike in 1952, switched his registration to Republican in 1956. In general outlook, Anderson could well serve as a model Eisenhower Republican. George Humphrey, who became an Anderson friend and admirer through Cabinet contacts, recommended him as the best man for the Treasury...
Made in U.S.A. Though foundations are as old as the Pharaohs, the one that Heald runs is as much an American product as the model T. Plato may have endowed his academy, and Benjamin Franklin may have left funds for the needy married apprentices of Boston and Philadelphia, but it was not until the formation of the Peabody Education Fund in 1867 that the modern foundation really emerged. By that time philanthropy was taking up a whole new role: not charity alone, but the advancement of knowledge...
Nothing is funnier to practical Americans than a gadget that seems almost too practical to bear. Like the first model T, the Murphy In-A-Dor bed. which folded up into a closet, was laughed into fame, and so into the annals of genuine Americana. Millions who never owned a Murphy bed had seen Charlie Chaplin wrestling vainly with the contraption in One A.M., roared with glee when it finally flipped him into the closet. William L. Murphy, who invented the bed in the early 1900s, stoutly insisted that no such outrage ever happened in real life. But sales soared...
...Garment Jungle (Columbia) exposes the bare facts of life in the dress business. As the film begins, a wealthy dress manufacturer (Lee J. Cobb) leaps at a shapely model and rips the frock off her back, seam by seam, until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that...