Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentiment v. Unionism. The employers, however, took the attitude that the dissidents had been privileged to serve and had betrayed a trust. Pierce Brothers declared that the strikers were about to ruin one of the greatest privileges of life in Los Angeles-a $560 funeral (at New York rates) for only $320. Ugene Blalock, attorney for Forest Lawn, put it more ringingly. Cried he, after calling the cemetery's employees to a meeting in the new Hall of the Crucifixion (TIME, April...
Complex Denial. The paper had also been smudged with bad publicity. Early last month. Columnist Drew Pearson charged, in a $3,100,000 damage suit, that the Times-Herald was in league with Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy and others to ruin him (TIME, March 12). Then a congressional investigating committee called Bazy, Assistant Managing Editor Garvin Tankersley, and other T-H staffers to Capitol Hill to explain why they published a composite picture showing Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings and Communist Earl Browder together (TIME, March...
Last week the illegal wetback labor system did not lack for critics: many a citizen of the states involved not only cried, "Shame!" at a condition which savored of slavery, but protested that the low-paid laborers were working the economic ruin of dozens of farming towns. In the Imperial Valley, 34-year-old Hank Hasiwar, organizer for the National Farm Labor Union, was not only agitating among the wetbacks (who, however, cannot become union members) and protesting to Congress, but also trying to unite merchants and businessmen against the system...
Last week 46-year-old Alger Hiss walked through the bleak ruin of his life. His wife Priscilla was not with him. From Judge Goddard's paneled courtroom he went downstairs to the courthouse garage, handcuffed to Edward Jones, a petty mail thief. A crowd of photographers surrounded him, to catch this final incident. A deputy marshal asked him if he minded. The mail thief hid his face, but Alger Hiss said calmly: "If this is what you want, it's all right with me." Then he was loaded into a prison van with Jones and half...
...warmonger," Old Warhorse Churchill wanted an election as quickly as possible-and he was trying to force one by means that appeared not quite cricket to some Britons. Frank Byers, chairman of the Liberal Party (which shocks easily), was shocked. Said he: "A responsible Opposition would not seek to ruin the health of the members of the Government...