Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then McCarran wandered on to Los Angeles, began holding hearings on another subject, and blandly asked Watkins for three more weeks' delay. He was refused, and the immigration hearings began-over the roaring protests of Idaho's Welker. Then, three weeks ago, at a meeting of the parent Judiciary Committee, Pat made his slickest move-a resolution calling for further delay, in the hope that the bill would not reach the floor at this session. McCarran beclouded the real aim of his motion so well that it carried, 6-4. (Among the six was that coonskinned humanitarian...
Americans like to believe that the U.S. public high school is free. Not so, says Principal Willard Hawkins of Maryland's Bel Air Junior-Senior High School, in a report in the current Nation's Schools. Aside from taxes, the average parent must shell out money all through the year...
...list of polio victims neared 80, the Office of Defense Mobilization allotted it 250,000 cc (67 gallons), enough to provide shots for more than 30,000 youngsters under ten. Montgomery's doctors and nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning to night, for four days, droves of children were run through an assembly-line routine: pants down, an alcohol swab on the buttock, the jab of a needle, and then a lollipop to shut their mouths. Total shots...
...flashes that interrupted months of the utmost military caution. Despite, or perhaps because of Washington's conservative reverence for God, church and tradition, he turned against the king in whose army he had served, became the driving force in the greatest change of his day, and the true parent of a nation that has changed and changed, and yet has veered far less radically from the basic tradition of Europe than has Europe itself...
When James J. Nance quit the presidency of Hotpoint Co. (appliances) to take over Packard Motor Car Co. eleven months ago, his old employers gave him a notable vote of confidence. Hotpoint's parent company, General Electric, bought 25,000 shares of Packard for its retirement fund. This week Jim Nance, 52, proved that the confidence was well deserved. Packard's first-quarter profit of $10 million before taxes was better than in any other three-month period in the company's history. On sales of $123 million, Packard netted $3,510,062, almost triple the figure...