Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's end the U.S. will achieve "the highest level of employment and the lowest level of unemployment ever experienced in peacetime," predicted Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell to a gathering of New York businessmen last week...
...attacked Kennedy on two charges: 1) Jack, author of prizewinning Profiles in Courage, "understands what courage is and admires it, but has not quite the independence to have it" (he took no stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former Ambassador to Britain, is "spending oodles of money all over the country" on Jack's candidacy, "probably has paid representatives in every state." Challenged to name one hired agent, Mrs. Roosevelt answered that "my information came largely from remarks made by people in many places...
Hard-eyed and tightlipped, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Kennedy, an up-from-the-beat disciplinarian who runs New York's 23,600-man force with an iron hand (TIME, July 7), promoted eight cops ranging from rookie patrolman to lieutenant. Curiously, all eight were raised for the same reason: they had put the finger on other cops during a month of sordid police scandals that rocked the world's largest city...
...P. HEIRS will sell a block of 1,800,000 shares, 8% of the grocery chain's outstanding stock, and valued at about $81 million, in the third largest secondary offering in history (first: Ford, $657.9 million; second, Upjohn Co., $108.4 million...
...Boston, the State House, City Hall and the Federal Building and nine-tenths of the stores shut down. Robert P. Shea, Boston Commissioner of Public Works, banned all cars without chains from entering the city...