Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that "those parts of Secretary Talbott's official duties with which I have come in contact have been almost brilliantly performed." He pointed out that Talbott had not been charged with an illegal act. But he also said: "I do not believe that any man can hold, properly hold, public office merely because he is not guilty of any illegal act ... So what is now involved is, was a proper standard of ethics violated...
Talbott had a quick answer: "Everything I have done is proper and ethical. I did not solicit any business." From the firm's files, however, sub committee staffers picked up correspondence written by and to Secretary Talbott...
...produce a defense item available in no other way. Plants that make products which have a civilian use should stand on their own feet, said he, and expand with the market, not under Government stimulus. Humphrey expects the Government to have a new program ready soon "on a proper basis...
...tell the children's nanny about it: "They flourish somehow, they don't mind so much about . . . about what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That's how I feel: niggly." Soon, Celia is feeling so far from niggly that before Arcangelo makes a proper pass at her, she completes it. She finds that adultery, which should disturb her gives her a knife-edged joy. Arcangelo is "one of the three best poets in Italy," and through his eyes she sees the glories of Florence and Siena, and in his arms plumbs depths of awakened...
...Ever since his This Week magazine article admitting that he had accepted pay for playing amateur tennis (TIME, May 30), former U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer has been getting the cold shoulder from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have fired Big Jake from his job as coach of the Junior Davis Cup squad, a training group that was originally his brain child. The new coach: Don Budge, another pro, who was U.S. Singles champ...