Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train to move out while eight reporters were still rushing to clamber aboard. Hagerty dashed up ahead of the train, planted his foot on the track, forcing the engineer to stop. "They yelled like hell," recalls Hagerty. "But I knew...
...that.' Bureaucrats never think of reducing a tax any more, and this is one I want to reduce." If the Republican-controlled legislature resists his program, it will have to raise $20 million elsewhere-probably by an increase in the sales tax from 2% to 3%, a move which Docking already has promised to veto...
...quite sure why the Federal Reserve had lowered margin requirements at this time. Wall Street looked on it as a move to bolster investors' confidence, although the Fed insisted that its motives were not that at all. Said a Fed spokesman: "Our only interest is in loosening a credit restraint that was no longer needed." Actually, the higher margin has not been needed for months. Since last June, stock-market credit affected by margin requirements has declined steadily, at latest report stood at only $5,218,000,000, the lowest point in three years and less than...
UNION-BUSTING CHARGES are being hurled at A.F.L-C.I.O. itself. It fired, retired or switched jobs of 100 A.F.L-C.I.O. organizers in purported economy move. But many of men were members of new organizers' union that wanted to bargain with A.F.L.-C.I.O. on wages, seniority, etc. Spokesman for them says that A.F.L.-C.I.O. axed them to "bust up" union...
...next dormitory will be Sargent College's Lennox Hall, at 1595 Massachusetts Ave. Sargent will move to Boston at the end of its spring term...