Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours in the House lobby just fishing and shooting the breeze and talk to 30 of them and get nothing. The next day one phone call will result in a story." What is important is whom reporters get to know. TIME'S reporters consider it a good rule of thumb to get to know all the Senators, as many of the 435 Representatives as possible. "It is particularly important in the House," says McConaughy, "to know one top Democrat and one top Republican on each committee and one from each state delegation. That way you always have a place...
...freely handing out liquor licenses to racketeers and political cronies for only $525 each, and allowing them to be resold at the going rate of $6,500. Bonelli retaliated with a 15-page demand for retraction, hinted darkly that the Chandlers had tried to get his board to rule favorably on tax matters affecting them. At the same time, the Board of Equalization rejected the Chandlers' appeal of assessments on their national advertising revenue just 13 days after the Mirror series ended...
...Vice President in Tito's Yugoslavia, a maxim for staying on good terms with the boss is: never, never poll more votes than the President. In the election last November, Milovan Djilas, No. 3 man in the Yugoslav hierarchy and one of its four Vice Presidents, broke the rule...
...only a colony of the U.S. Even the U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission's plan for better roads and ports is just a trick for the U.S. to get war materials out of the country. Nationalists and others interested in building up a Brazilian economy free from yanqui rule should take heed, said Prestes, to these proposals: 1) annulment of all treaties with the U.S., 2) confiscation of all capital and enterprises belonging to "American monopolists," and 3) cancellation of Brazil's debt...
Buddhists & Freethinkers. What can be done to reduce the ravages of stress? There is no single rule, for as Psychiatrist Douglas R. MacCalman points out, some men thrive on distractions and dangers that would send others to hospital beds. Suggested the bishop of Manchester: "The church is meant to supply, though I freely admit it does not always do so, one of those deficiencies of modern life which . . . cause stress and anxiety . . . Within the family life of the Christian Church...