Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman J. Howard McGrath happened to be Attorney General. On Truman's order, a wholesale Government cleanup was ordered. To undertake the job, Attorney General McGrath hired New York Lawyer Newbold Morris, an enthusiastic, if inept, reformer. Morris started off with a big bang-by investigating his immediate superior, J. Howard McGrath. This was more than flesh or spirit could bear: McGrath fired Morris-and Truman fired McGrath...
...reported a single actual crime or victim, or any evidence to decide the question posed by one tabloid: "Mass murderer or vicious poison pen?" But the story had produced some evidence about British journalism. Most Britons and some Americans believe that the country's rigid press laws are superior to U.S. standards. Yet the laws have bred a technique of trumpeting sensation with small regard to facts. The very inability to name a suspect emboldens editors to print gossip and rumor about what he may have done. Whether Eastbourne deaths prove the year's big crime story...
...with his lieutenants at Chicago's Palmer House to scan a list of some 20 hopefuls-among them Steve Mitchell, Stevenson's old aide and former Democratic national chairman. After three hours Daley & Co. brought out of the hat a name from among the "also mentioned"-Chicago Superior Judge Richard B. Austin. Quickly the word was telephoned to the Cook County delegation, which controls the committee by a 13-12 vote. The result: after token resistance from downstaters, Judge Austin was nominated unanimously on the first ballot as the hand-picked candidate of the Chicago machine...
...Signal Oil & Gas Co. of Delaware, Superior Oil Co. of California, Sun Oil Co. of New Jersey and otherU.S. firms in various combinations got 108,000 acres in lake concessions and 74,100 acres for exploration. Cost: $79 million...
Sixth to Ninth. Without clear precedents to guide them, St. Louis educators arbitrarily set an IQ of 130 (very superior) as the dividing line between the average and the gifted student. Candidates for the special classes were identified by means of IQ tests given to all children in fourth grade. Those who scored no or better were given additional IQ tests shortly before they were due to enter sixth grade, assigned to nine special classrooms strategically scattered throughout the school system if they scored 130 or above on the latter tests and proved "socially adjusted." In the special classrooms they...