Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monro came to Cambridge from Andover in 1930 as a freshman and quickly joined the CRIMSON, where he soon became editorial chairman. In the middle of his senior year, he led the rebelling faction in an internal dispute over CRIMSON policy and organization. "The fight split the board right down the middle," he says, "and there seemed nothing for the dissenters to do but resign and start a new paper...
Havenga had not always flouted the rules. A tough veteran of the Boer War, he became Finance Minister in 1924, and budgeted so conservatively in the next 15 years that he became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
After ten years of agile legal footwork, Paramount Pictures, Inc. last week tossed in the sponge in its antitrust fight with the Justice Department. It approved a consent decree agreeing to split itself into two separate companies, one to make and distribute movies, the other to operate theaters...
...Paramount's television interests will be split up. The Chicago station (WBKB) will go to the theater company. The movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...
...Committee vote was split 4 to 4 on the issue and the report presented the arguments of both sides: Walter B. Raushenbush '50 for the investigation, Chairman David L. McMurtrie '50 against it. Provost Buck will speak to the Council Monday night about the problem of price increases...