Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night Congress convened, he made a brash speech before the Women's National Press Club's Congressional Dinner and told some thuddingly tasteless anecdotes about his wife, Oregon State Representative Maurine Neuberger. He recalled that the Republicans had published a picture of Maurine in a bathing suit during the 1952 campaign, when she was running for the state legislature. Noting that she had gotten more votes than Dwight Eisenhower in her district, Neuberger added a quotation that he attributed to Mark Twain: "It just goes to prove that the voters would rather see Lillian Russell naked than General...
...reached an alltime high, there were inevitable uneasy looks back to 1929. Were 1954's stock prices as vulnerable as they were then? Where would they go from here? In their endless search for new ways to predict the market will do, Wall Streeters have developed theories to suit every whim. They range from the conservative old Dow Theory- so conservative that anyone who followed it since end would have missed most major market turns by - to attempts at guessing the market by studying the of the moss on trees, the number of lemmings, receipts in Milwaukee...
Last week in the face of a federal antitrust suit, Eastman's Board Chairman Thomas Hargrave agreed in a consent decree to drop Eastman's pay-in-advance system, which includes the cost of processing in the price of a roll of color film.-Eastman will now sell a 20-exposure roll of 35-mm. Kodachrome for about $1.85, v. the present price of $3.25 including processing. Eastman will charge $1.50 extra to develop the roll, will license independent processors on a royalty basis to use its patents. Eastman also agreed to drop fair-trade pricing...
...Schedule. In Bridgeport, Conn., Mrs. Margaret Dennis Warner, filing suit for her second divorce from husband George R. Warner, revealed that her charge of mental cruelty in the first divorce action had been right, after all, since her husband had started being cruel to her again the day after they were rewed...
Little Pitchers. In Chester, England, after Robert Emrys Griffiths filed suit for divorce from his wife on the grounds that she committed adultery 16 years ago, Judge Emlyn Jones explained: "He did not want to bring proceedings until the children were grown...