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...maids, or "goodies," as they were called to 1920, have been a College institution for 270 years. During that time, they have been known to bake cakes, sew buttons, care for ill students, and help solve girl problems. Many alumni have referred to them as "the Harvard man's mother away from home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Pick Favorite Maid; Honor System's 270 Years | 11/20/1952 | See Source »

...Senator Taft and corrupt methods by which he attempted to sew up Southern delegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...race to sew up the choice television time, the Democrats got off to a fast start. They lined up 18 network TV shows at a cost of $630.000. As early as last June, the Democrats staked a claim to a 30-minute period that was available on alternate Tuesdays (CBS, 10:30 p.m., E.S.T.) until election day. Explains the Democrats' Washington radio chief, Lou Frankel: "As we book our man on speeches around the country, we can fit him into the radio & TV time already purchased." The Democratic program is simple: there is only one star, and such supporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Campaign | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lucky Ted | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...before they could sew up their final agreement, they had to pass the most difficult point of all: the union's demand for a union shop. Many modifications were discussed, and Republic Steel's President Charles White questioned Murray carefully about a plan similar to the General Motors modification in which old employees are not forced to join the union, and new employees can drop out, if they wish, after one year's membership. Union and Government men listened eagerly. They thought Big Steel was about to compromise on the big issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Steel Curtain | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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