Word: simon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of this, stockholders could thank the general high level of U.S. retailing. But they could also thank round-faced little Fred Lazarus, 62, ablest of Ohio's famed Lazarus brothers, Simon, Robert and Jeffrey. When Fred Lazarus stepped into Federated's presidency in 1945, the organization was little more than a device by which its five members,*through cross-ownership of each other's stock, protected themselves against regional slumps...
Sunshine. Cabled TIME Correspondent Simon Bourgin: "The elections were the most corrupt and boldly manipulated in the postwar Balkans. The Government had denied the opposition radio time, newsprint for its papers, transportation for its candidates. The Democratic Front's risingsun symbol was plastered every where, including polling places. In one brewery, workers were treated to a one-act play entitled Vote the Sun, then marched in to vote...
...This Is Peace was the first venture of Hope Corp. The corporation put up $25,000 to have the book printed, paid Simon & Schuster to distribute it. If it sells as well as his first (it made $175,000, which Hope turned over to charity), Hope should make far more than $175,000-and keep a big share...
TIME, with characteristic Jesuit duplicity, deleted from my letter [Oct. 21] that part which it knew would stir honest indignation against such bigoted fanaticism as that of Simon Elwes, who cannot forego religious discrimination even in connection with the dead; and so proposes "a world memorial for Catholic soldiers," the supreme sacrifice of non-Catholics apparently being unworthy of commemoration...
...Society's directors predicted a Gomorrah-like conflagration, the new secretary, Louis Croteau, embarked on a policy that conceded to Evil on short-run objectives, but went down the line when it came to the greater dangers. These were, and are, according to Croteau, commercialized gambling, professional and simon-pure prostitution, the narcotics trade, and obscenity...