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...more national appeal was the Liberal Union's trump card in the fight for civil liberties. Although three professors wrote and signed the 1952 Civil Liberties Appeal, it was an HLU project from there on. In a two-week office work orgy, Liberal Union members and their friends prepared 20,000 letters for mailing...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Student Politicos Knee-Deep in Work As Hot Election Race Draws to Close | 10/30/1952 | See Source »

...Trump Card. Old Republic's trump card was its offer to the financial houses themselves of a straight 40% commission for every policy written. It waived such time consumers as physical examinations, abandoned the usual practice of a policy scale that slid up with the age of the insured. As a result, Old Republic suddenly found itself swamped with business, signed up by credit people in some 4,100 banks and financial houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Billion-Dollar Baby | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...this point For Men Only dilutes its story with such exagerated side-plots as the attempt of Omega Nu's president to trump up a morals charge against the professor. But in the course of this sidetrack, we get a picture of the college administration performing various acrobatic hush-up operations to prevent "the alumni's pens from freezing in their checkbooks...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: For Men Only | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

...outset, whoever can place the largest number of square pegs in round holes becomes the "Government." Then cards are dealt around. Each player in turn presents his card, which is marked "Coal," "Gas," "Transport," "Steel," or the name of some other industry. Then the "Government" player presents his trump card, "Nationalisation," and takes his opponents' cards, handing them scraps of paper of dubious value in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). James Bridie's The Last Trump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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