Word: parents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disciplined. With a loud aye, in effect they surrendered their old constitutional authority as a convention and gave Murray and his executive board virtually absolute power over 39 C.I.O. unions-the power to 1) bar Communists from sitting on the executive board, 2) expel any C.I.O. union from the parent body without a convention vote...
...world's) biggest newspaper, News of the World (circ. 8,320,000). In one recent issue, News of the World readers were served up such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases. Sample, from last week's report of how BOY AGED 15 ACCUSES A MARRIED WOMAN...
...staff at Bleemfontein keeps in fairly close touch with its parent body at Cambridge. Two or three times a year the South African group sends here a large batch of photographs it has taken...
...position toward its possessions is that of a parent with lusty, growing children, who must be supported until they become self-sustaining. For the past half-century Puerto Rico has been a costly child, its upkeep running into millions annually ... To reduce this drain on U.S. resources, Congress has tried to encourage American industry and investment in the island through tax exemptions and other inducements . . . GEORGE R. MERCADER Beverly Hills, Calif...
...come out on top financially last year, the parent University had to eat into previously built-up accounts to help balance the books of 18 departments which lost money in 1948-1949. Some of these departments had previous balances of their own with which to write off their debts, but in the other cases the University had to come to the rescue. As a result of continued resort to this expedient over the past few years, University reserves today are less than a third of what they were...