Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Chalmer's essay, "The Golden Squire: A Study in Spencer, Aristotle, and Temperance," was judged the best piece of criticism entered in the contest. "The Homecoming," by Miss Fisher, was recognized as the best original piece of creative writing...
...When Spencer Tracy walks off the train into Black Rock, he has a maimed left arm; he is considerably better off than most of the combatants at the end of the film, the most comfortable of whom presumably has nothing more serious than a concussion. Bad Day at Black Rock is a literate, suspenseful Western, but those accustomed to mere gunfights and fisticuffs had better be ready for a slightly more sadistic brand of action...
...Spencer Tracy plays the stranger, a man endowed with the resourcefulness of Robinson Crusoe, to say nothing of an incredible judo chop. Robert Ryan is the principal meanie, but his neanderthal sidekicks supply most of the diabolic appeal. Anne Francis contributes the moist lipstick...
Cannon also surprised fellow textilemen. For months Southern mill owners have been discussing the need to raise pay to attract and hold good employees in the rapidly urbanizing and industrializing South. There are 552,000 textile workers in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Recently, President J. Spencer Love of the nation's largest textile firm, Burlington Industries Inc. (52,000 employees), suggested that Congress raise the national minimum wage, now $1, to $1.25 an hour, so all mill operators would have to go up and none could chisel on wages to undercut his competitors on prices...
...Spencer Ervin 3L, William C. Hudson '60, Gail H. Jones '59, John B. Jones '62, Carola deP. Kittredge '60, Stephen I. Klass '59, John P. Leonard '62, Judith O. Ogden '62, Gavin R. W. Scott '58, and Margaret M. Spencer '61 will play minor leads...