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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the Democratic majorities confronting him in Congress in all but the first two years of his Administration, Dwight Eisenhower built up a remarkable record of making his vetoes stick: of his first 143 vetoes. Congress failed to override a single one. Last week, just before he took off for Europe, the President jeopardized his perfect record with Veto No. 144. Turned down: the lardy, $1.2 billion public works bill, more popularly called "the pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only...
...arrested Joey Glimco on his first murder charge, the booking officer gave up counting Joey's previous arrests, just listed them as "innumerable."' Since that day in 1928, Tough Guy Glimco (alias Joseph Glinico, Joseph Glielmi. etc., etc.) has added a lot more arrests to his police record. Yet Joey Glimco, longtime extortion racketeer in Chicago's West Side poultry markets, at age 50 is an official of the U.S.'s biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president of Teamster Local...
...Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, riding the crest of the boom, reported its own record, a two-week nonholiday gross of $404,056, for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, well over the total of runner-up High Society. Additional Music Hall intelligence: Northwest's star, Gary Grant, is the Music Hall's male favorite; he has appeared there in 23 pictures that ran for a total of 75 weeks. Closest male competitor: Fred Astaire, with 14 pictures, 48 weeks...
Still it was not enough to satisfy her youthful dream. She recorded an album of Haydn sonatas (released this summer), immediately made arrangements to record Bach's Three-Part Inventions. But that, at last, was denied. One morning last week, in her home in Connecticut, Wanda Landowska suffered a stroke, and there she died...
...only a part-of the squeeze on money. Because of the new boom, there has been a large rise in business loans, which have soared from a recession low of $52 billion in May 1958 to $58 billion last month. Heavy Government financing ($13 billion deficit last year), a record volume of state and local fund-raising in the first half of 1959, and a jump in consumer credit have added to the competition for funds. Following the surge, interest rates on bank business loans in 19 major cities went from 4.17% in 1958's second half...