Word: previously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said he: "What the representative of the U.S. proposes actually is a revision of the [U.N.] Charter. The fact that the American proposal provides for a voluntary relinquishment of the so-called 'veto' . . . does not change the situation." But this was a milder Soviet objection than many previous ones...
...This amendment read: 'Incumbent officials may not be elected to the National Assembly.' It had been slipped in neatly at the previous session, catching responsible leadership unawares. It was a strike by little politicians against the big bureaucrats, more spiteful than high-minded, for it would disqualify some of the nation's most competent men. When the Chair announced the reconsideration, a stormy wave of protest rose from the little politicians and beat upon the heads of the big ones. In the final vote, however, the leadership amended the troublesome amendment to read: 'Incumbent officials...
...Previous rulings of the court in 1944 and 1945, which had applied to "portal-to-portal" pay for miners alone, were now applied to workers in all industries. For all the time spent on company property-except for insignificant amounts-a worker must be paid...
Mary Howard did a good job even to get started as a recording engineer. When NBC hired her in 1942, she was the first woman engineer employed by a network. Her only previous experience: recording transatlantic broadcasts for the BBC in New York. Now she records 14 top shows a week for all four networks. Among them: Dinah Shore's, Jack Haley's, Kraft Music Hall, Invitation to Music...
Died. Eugene ("Gene") Talmadge, 62, governor-elect of Georgia, who during three previous terms as governor won fame of a sort as the rabble-rousing apostle of "white supremacy"; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Atlanta (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...