Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Court has a thorough and complete knowledge of what could and would be done under the bill. And likewise, I suspect that the A.D.A., the N.A.A.C.P.'s Gold Dust Twin, has at least guilty knowledge." Nor were these all the plotters. Heading the list: Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "of whom the bill would make a 20th century American Caesar...
...White House indicated that Congress was not too happy about having a retired general as Defense Secretary, and. anyway, Al Gruenther was not too anxious to get back into Government harness. Next man up was John Hannah, president of Michigan State University, who did a thorough job as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Personnel) in 1953-54; he could not be persuaded to leave East Lansing again. Then the big name on Pentagon lips was Ralph J. Cordiner, president of General Electric and sponsor of the thoughtful Cordiner Committee plan to streamline the pay scales of the armed forces...
...many of them are tied to Canada's relations with the U.S. To identify and examine such problems, the National Planning Association, a privately supported U.S. research agency, last week set up a committee of top-level U.S. and Canadian businessmen, educators and labor leaders for a thorough study. The committee is headed by Quaker Oats Co. Chairman Douglas Stuart, onetime (1953-56) U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Montreal Lawyer Robert Fowler, president of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association. Among the likely points of focus for research...
...important native music we Americans have." He assigned tyros to instruments that seemed to echo their personalities (trumpets for the extroverts, bass to the intellectuals who "don't mind standing back there by themselves playing"), made arrangements derived from Herman or Basie patterns. He gave his youngsters a thorough grounding in jazz history and styles, firmly steered them away from standard pop music. All of the band members also play in the school concert band, and the exposure to both jazz and classical music, Brown feels, makes them better at both ("They shake up a Bach fugue like nothing...
Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...