Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another West Coast state, Washington, also has a "little Dies Committee." Representative Albert F. Canwell, the committee's chairman, was defeated in the 1948 election, but under his direction, the legislative group's investigation of the University of Washington last year touched off the string of events that resulted in the firing of three professors and the suspension of three others...
...collected for the fund. The interest on the whole amount $400 per annum will be used to defray operating expenses, for which the debaters have been hard-pressed this year. Most of the funds for the present season came from gifts, forcing the club to work on a shoe-string basis...
...First-string starters will probably be Lou Schaffer, Rob Baldwin, and Ned Yost at attack; Godfrey Birckhead. Willie Byrne, and Captain Bill Spence at defense; Pete Brooke, Al Sawyer, and Rip Lynch at midfield; and Dick Thomas at goal...
...TIME'S Canadian edition in 1943, we established a permanent news bureau in Ottawa. Since that time, as TIME Canadian's circulation and advertising volume have more than doubled, our Canadian coverage has grown steadily. We now have additional bureaus in Montreal and Toronto plus 26 string correspondents who are high-ranking journalists on Canadian newspapers. This Dominion-wide network of reporters represents an increasing effort to get the best possible coverage of the news in Canada...
...were slightly below 1947). Owner and part-time Publisher Walter Annenberg decided it was high time he had a full-time publisher to get promotion, advertising and editorial departments working together to plug the magazine. With his Philadelphia Inquirer, pulps (Official Detective Stories and Gags) and a string of daily racing forms, he was too busy to do the job himself, but Alice Thompson seemed just the hand to entrust it to. To fill her old spot he snagged pretty, blonde Andrée Vilas, 34, once editor of Junior Bazaar, then managing editor of Glamour, and currently managing editor...