Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decontrol Board is considering at the very moment this question-whether or not to reestablish price ceilings on such items as milk, meat, and grains. Chairman of the Board, Roy L. Thompson, has reported that to date he has received few letters from individuals favoring such control...
Color Question. In Columbus, Ohio, a housepainter, exasperated by the endless questions of three-year-old Harold Thompson, painted him red, sent him home. Scrubbed, the boy returned, got a battleship grey treatment...
...LELAND THOMPSON, 55, Mississippi-born. Chairman of the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Roy Thompson has been working in Farm Credit Administration agencies since 1933, but he is no crusader for Government controls. His aim as Chairman of the Decontrol Board: "Get things out from under price controls as quickly as possible; if we can get production going at its proper rate, competitive force can remove the necessity of Government control...
...writings of Thomas Jefferson, set to music by Composer Randall Thompson, are sung by the Harvard Glee Club accompanied by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (The Testament of Freedom; Victor, 6 sides). Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait (Columbia, 4 sides) is narrated by Negro Baritone Kenneth Spencer to a derivative score played by the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. In both these cases the words are wasted on pretentious, slight music...
INDEPENDENT PEOPLE (470 pp.)-Halldor Laxness (Translated by J. A. Thompson)-Knopf...