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...state where it was hatched, the Charter of the United Nations fluttered home to roost last week. A California court of appeals used it to throw out a California law. The opinion, if upheld, might scatter confusion through the laws of the 48 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Superior Authority? | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Prayers & Pep Talks. Beveridge built his original sales staff around former Fuller employees, kept 51% control of the company for himself. Fond of old-fashioned virtues, he rules his roost with a hand of iron, a heart of gold, and an eye on the Scriptures. His Westfield offices and the nearby Easthampton production plant are dotted with such slogans as: "The vision to see, the faith to believe, and the courage to do." Beveridge opens every business meeting with the Stanley prayer: "0 Lord . . . help me to enter into the mind of everyone who talks with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATION: The Brush Man | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...year drew toward its close, a wacky picture book, White Collar Zoo, stood at the head of the non-fiction bestsellers, and a vastly overrated picaresque novel with a panoramic ancient setting, The Egyptian, ruled the current fiction roost. One was a good-natured freak, the other an escape hatch, and neither of them was a suggestive commentary on the year's literary inventory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Felix Frankfurter, Vienna-born, oldest in years (66), who as a professor at the Harvard Law School in the '30s hatched out a brood of young New Deal pundits, and as a justice is a bouncing, argumentative, brilliant little man planted firmly on the roost of his vast knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: The Living Must Judge | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

International UNESCO day, New England branch, came to roost in Sanders Theater last night as the United Nations Council played host for the finale of the local celebration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hub Celebration of UNESCO Day Finishes Up in Sanders | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

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