Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Featherbedding. In Trenton, N.J., the appellate division of the state Superior Court ruled that Nightwatchman Felix Remisiewski may be eligible (subject to a lower-court check) for overtime pay, even while asleep...
TIME'S Books editor, Max Gissen, and Researcher Ruth Mehrtens have found the ideal locale for interviewing a TIME cover subject: an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. It is completely relaxing, and there are no interruptions...
...this time Marquand, contrary to prior warnings from some sources, was a completely cooperative subject, and Gissen and Miss Mehrtens returned to New York refreshed and certain that they had their story...
Also rammed through was a re-registration bill, the net effect of which would be to disfranchise more Negroes, cut down voters' lists and make elections easier to swing. To supplement this, Hummon's boys extended the county-unit voting system to general elections, subject to approval of the voters in 1950. The unit-voting system makes it possible for Hummon's beloved piney-woods counties to outvote their city neighbors...
...fidgety man of 30, had been an active campaigner for Henry Wallace; his wife, an Oregon State student, was the firebrand of the campus Young Progressives organization. La Vallee, too, was a Wallaceite. Some students thought he was "pretty radical" in his economics classes, but he still taught his subject from standard texts. As for Spitzer, he had stuck pretty close to chemistry...