Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no such joy in Albany, where 2,200 dutiful New York Democrats turned out for a $50-a-plate Harriman testimonial dinner. Everything seemed off-key. When Rabbi Julius K. Guttman of Troy rose to say the blessing, the band broke into Happy Days Are Here Again. Hoped for by Ave and his aides but never received: a message of good will from Harry Truman (see below...
...failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel to the press plate. Next morning Private Ervin's ragged ghost haunted the spot (see cut) where the Morning Star cut out the Negro and spited its front page...
Religious evangelists pose a peculiar problem for radio and television stations. Many are enormously popular, and some bring religion to the bedridden, the busy, or the lazy. The problem arises because of a built-in difficulty: the TV evangelist cannot pass the plate. If he needs money, he must ask for it. But solicitation over the air is a privilege which can easily be abused. Most stations disapprove of it and some...
EMPLOYEE BANK ACCOUNTS is latest version of Guaranteed Annual Wage. State of Ohio has approved plan by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. to contribute between 3? and 5? per hour to individual bank accounts for each worker; money cannot be withdrawn unless worker is laid off. Ohio businessmen go along with plan, but unions so far have said nothing...
...compliment of confessing one failure. Beginning an etching, he says, "I started to doodle. It became a Rembrandt. I even made another one right away, with his turban, his furs, his eye-you know what I mean, his elephant's eye. I'm still working on this plate to get his blacks. You don't get them right away...