Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the Antitrust drive to stop fixing prices and allocating territories in the garment industry began a long time ago. In the Truman Administration the Antitrust Division indicted the Women's Sportswear Manufacturers Association for a conspiracy to fix prices and funnel orders to Association members designated by the union as in good standing. But at that time it was not the division policy to name I.L.G.W.U. as a defendant in the suit, only the employer group. Says Bicks: "We waited years for the unions to clean up this kind of situation. They did not. So we finally indicted...
Editor Haydn has worked with such authors as Jerome (The Enemy Camp) Weidman and Ayn (The Fountainhead) Rand, discovered or brought along such young novelists as William (Lie Down in Darkness) Styron and H. L. (Paris Underground) Humes. Says another of his authors, Truman Capote: "He is one of these very fatherly types. He is aggressively normal-you can see the blink behind the eye even though the eye is open. He is very much the commuter, and really the perfect editor-for people who need an editor...
...comparison, Franklin Roosevelt's Gallup rating ranged from 84% to 34%, Harry Truman's from 87%, soon after he succeeded Roosevelt, to 23% at the scandal-marred, Korea-scarred end of his second term...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. The hottest kitten yet to hit the author's typewriter keys...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. The hottest kitten yet to hit the author's typewriter keys...