Word: presidentitis
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Triumphant Symbol. Teddy bears are precisely 67 years old. The name was attached to a new line of stuffed bruins manufactured by the forerunner of the Ideal Toy Corp. and by Germany's Steiff Co. after President Theodore Roosevelt, on an expedition to Mississippi in 1902, refused to shoot...
I DO not look on inflation as a temporary wartime phenomenon," said Irving Rose, president of Detroit's Advance Mortgage Corp., before a convention of mortgage bankers recently. "I regard it as the inevitable price of our national commitment to a full-employment economy. Hence, it is chronic. The...
In spite of President Nixon's tireless warnings that businessmen who bet on persistent inflation are bound to lose, the bets are still being placed. Wholesale commodity prices continued to rise at an estimated 4.8% annual rate in November. The index will almost certainly move up again this month...
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has supported so many boycotts by member unions against employers that last summer President George Meany made a little joke about it. A loyal unionist's ultimate treason, he said, would be to eat grapes while flying over West Virginia in a National Airlines plane burning...
In the middle of this week, the U.S. could face the worst labor trouble of the year: a strike by 15 shop unions against the major railroads. The indications last week were that a settlement would be reached in time to prevent the walkout. If the strike occurs, however, President...