Word: solee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people that belong to those parties. There is nothing I can do to say that someone is not a Republican. The most I can say is that in many things they do not agree with me. Therefore, in looking for help to get over a program, which is the sole purpose of political leadership, as I see it ... I can't look to them for help...
...Cent Sole. The fast growth of the market has been nourished by new selling techniques. Columbia poured $1,000,000 into advertising its mail-order record club to attract a new group of buyers that now represents 15% to 20% of the LP market (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955). Other companies launched their own clubs, have about 1,500,000 members who will buy an expected $20 million through the mail. RCA, which originally shunned the club idea because its dealers feared the competition, announced instead this week a coupon plan to lure buyers into dealers' shops...
...director and smiled. At the end of her speech the director said "Thank you." He rose from his seat, "Now read the same speech as if it were all beautiful, as if it were the ideal way to die." Next he had her read the passage with a sole concern for the horror of the narrative. Finally, "Make believe you're on the witness stand, being questioned about the drowning of Ophelia. Behave as though you killed her and are telling a false story...
...Eisenhower order eliminated the Loyalty Review Board, a commission of twenty leading lawyers and educators set up by President Truman to hear appeals on security firings. The abolition of the Board, however, lessened rather than increased the uniformity of government security procedures, as each department head was given the sole responsibility over the security of his office. This lack of central organization led to confused situations like that in which Wolf Ladejinsky was cleared by the State Department and then suspended by the Department of Agriculture on tenuous grounds...
Meanwhile, Administration spokesmen, including the President, were deliberately misrepresenting the number of employees fired under the Eisenhower program and were trying to place sole responsibility on the Democrats for the fact that the government has been "honeycombed with Communists." Administration figures on security firings ranged from 1,459 up to 9,600, but Congressional findings last year revealed that only 342 employees had actually been removed as security risks. And many of these, it was discovered, had been hired since 1953. When this information was made public, the Administration hastily ceased its allegations but never offered to correct its misleading...