Word: reines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last August, Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis was murdered outside his Bronx apartment by a hired gunman who was killed, in turn, by a policeman. Lewis was president of Local 32-E of the A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes' Union, which had free rein at Yonkers Raceway...
...savings (chiefly real-estate holdings now worth $34,000) in trust for "a monument . . . in memory of early Oregon pioneers." Last year the trustee chose a committee (among its members: Director Thomas Colt of the Portland Art Museum, Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at M.I.T.), gave it free rein to find a suitable work. Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, the committee thought, was "universal" in spirit, a true masterpiece and a bargain. Price, from a Manhattan dealer...
...internationally seasoned operator, and most of them turned Communist only after the 1944 revolution. They got a foothold under professorial Juan José Arevalo, President from 1945 to 1951, who let them organize the country's first trade unions but had enough political sophistication to hold them in rein. Their growth in behind-the-scenes power came under Arbenz, Arevalo's chosen successor, whom they helped elect...
Both speakers questioned the larch of individual, independent productivity of the present generation as evidenced by the fact that the new critics" rein the output of the twenties for subject matter...
Westinghouse's engineers, given free rein, also brought forth an operatorless elevator,* which promises to revolutionize city office-building transportation. Each car not only operates itself electrically (it will not stop at a floor where no one has rung), but coordinates its operation with every other car in the system, so that no two stop at the same floor...