Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lodge has lost its old appeal of exclusiveness and its local VIP leaders, e.g., the town bankers. Says a Missouri Mason: "Men just won't go out to see their mailman drone through a meeting." Even members' funerals, once a must for most orders, get scant attendance. Commented one Knights of Pythias bigwig in Birmingham: "The brothers just don't have the whole spirit...
...London's slums-Padre Clayton knew how to get what he wanted. He first established squatter's rights to the shell of All Hallows by moving in a token supply of building materials, then promised to get the church rebuilt without drawing on Britain's scant supplies...
...anticartel law, West Germany's Bundestag ratified both the Common Market and Euratom Treaties. The next step is approval in that graveyard of European aspirations, the French National Assembly. Last week, as the French Assembly moved into the final stages of debate on the two treaties, attendance was scant-at one point only 18 Deputies were in the chamber-and the sole outburst of passion occurred in the parliamentary bar, where insulted Communists felled an aggressive right-wing Deputy with a broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy on the heat which blanketed Paris as well as Bonn...
POSTAL WORKERS' WAGES will not go up in near future, although House Post Office and Civil Service Committee okayed $546 yearly raise for about 500,000 postmen. Measure stands scant chance in budget-whacking Congress, but even if it passes, President Eisenhower will veto...
Meanwhile, Justice Department attorneys wearily totted up the damage of recent Supreme Court decisions: some reckoned that of 89 Communists convicted under the Smith Act, at least 40 will probably be able to get new trials-or outright acquittals from the Supreme Court. Furthermore, there is scant hope of convicting many of the 27 awaiting trial because of the double impact of the California Communist decisions and the Jencks decision (TIME, June 17) requiring the Government to allow defendants to see pertinent FBI files-or drop the case. If anyone doubted before, last week made it clear that the Supreme...