Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them to attack us. Instead, he's set on seeking out the cracks in their armor and probing home his steel wherever he can penetrate." In accordance with their platform, The Right Road for Britain (which has sold 2½ million copies since it was published last summer-TIME, Aug. 1), the Tory leaders called for a reduction of taxes and government spending, promised they would keep Labor's social services but manage them less wastefully, would halt but not abolish the nationalization of industry. They denied Labor charges that they would use "mass unemployment" as an economic...
Novelist John P. Marquand lost a legal fight to buy out the interests of six cousins in a 46-acre ancestral estate (scene of his Wickford Point) in Newburyport, Mass. Marquand, who had argued that he could not live in peace with relatives setting up summer homes all over the place, was left with two houses and only 15 acres...
...Stravinsky . . . You take nice jumps and land on your toes." As fast as Grenell could press them, kids all over the U.S. began devouring such nutritional morsels as Haydn's Toy Symphony, Mozart's Country Dances, Liadov's Russian Folk Songs and Prokofiev's A Summer...
...staff for 15 years. Husky, able Accountant Ed McCormick has headed up many an SEC stock flotation inquiry, including that of the Tucker Corp., some of whose officers are under indictment in Chicago (TIME, June 20). Also nominated to the commission to succeed Robert K. McConnaughey, who resigned last summer, was Washington Lawyer Donald C. Cook, 40, onetime SEC staffer, longtime Department of Justice aide. Later, the five-man commission will elect as chairman one of the three Democrats - McCormick, Cook, or Commissioner Paul Rowen...
...CRIMSON'S Europe-traveling editors did manage to get first-hand reports on a number of the League of independents' meetings in Salzburg this summer. At one meeting, the speaker was questioned on the Party's attitude toward the Jews. He replled that Hitler had temporarily eliminated the Jews in Austria, but the Party realized that democracy was impossible in a nation with a race minority. While the CRIMSON realizes that the League is a catch-all party, the editors feel that this and similar statements indicate that the leadership and program of the Party have clear Nazi inclinations...