Word: stampedes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Table Talk. The Federal Trade Commission also got moving last week, filed complaints against nine record companies -including mighty RCA-charging payola and other "unfair and deceptive acts." Same day, five FTC commissioners sat down at a long, dark mahogany table, solemnly exchanged views on phony advertising with the broadcasting...
Under the new withdrawal system, a book taken out at 12 noon will be stamped due at 3 p.m.; one removed at 12:05 must be returned at 3:05. As at the present, books withdrawn after 9 p.m. will be allowed out all night.
Mindful that his audience was made up largely of farmers, Speaker Symington fired on one of his favorite targets, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "I don't know who he represents," said Symington, "but I know who he does not represent-the farmers." But it was not what Symington...
France has stamped its little foot, thrown its little tantrum, and won its little point. De Gaulle's motives, from the point of view of Western policy, are none too clear, but he will have his way.
Chief of Staff, rubber-stamped Marshall's choices of top men for the top jobs-Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, Hodges, Patton. He resolutely supported Marshall's argument, over Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific...