Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blurred, easy voice, Decontrol Board Chairman Roy Thompson let the big price secret out through the nation's radios. Livestock, meat, soybeans, cottonseed, flaxseed and their by-products would go back under controls on a date to be fixed by the OPA. Dairy products and most grains would not. "I expect," concluded Chairman Thompson, red-eyed from weariness, "that we are going to hear plenty of criticism...
...Specification. To the biased glance, the price decisions seemed a studied compromise. They were-and they were not. Boardmen Roy Thompson, George Mead and Daniel W. Bell, who had bravely picked up the coals hot-handled them by Congress last July, had followed congressional standards in determining recontrol. The standards: 1) the price of a commodity must have risen unreasonably since June 30; 2) the commodity must be in short supply; 3) its regulation must be enforceable; 4) its recontrol must serve the public interest. These standards, in some respects political, in all respects loosely phrased, were Congress...
...Heagan Bayles, 35, co-directors of R.&R.'s radio operations. Their fifth partner was the only principal in the new firm who was not an R.&R. man: Robert T. Colwell, 42, top creative man and head of the plans board at J. Walter Thompson, No. 1 U.S. ad agency...
...Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist-writer-artist since everybody's childhood (Wild Animals I Have Known, Two Little Savages), had a good word for the young as he turned 86. He reported that "there are all kinds of youth in this day-mostly good...
...want to be able to get along on the government cheeks now or even with an increase, write at once to MR. Roy Thompson, Federal Reserve System offices, 20th and Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. (Mrs.) Judith Emmanuel, Wife of a Student