Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Front Royal, two in Almond's native town of Charlottesville). But it was a lot easier to close schools than to get them opened again without any integration. Eager as he was to find gimmicks of delay, Lawyer Almond frankly admitted that he considered a Faubus-type school-leasing plan too obviously illegal to be worth...
...neglecting Latin America. The U.S. itself had scant contact south of the border, and with war coming, as he saw it, needed Western Hemisphere neighbor nations it hardly knew. Rockefeller put the blame on the State Department for not following up U.S. business entries into Latin America with higher-type diplomacy, said as much in a report he forwarded to White House Chamberlain Harry Hopkins. Hopkins read the report, showed it to Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt asked the 32-year-old Rockefeller to visit him. Upshot of the call: Rockefeller's appointment as coordinator of Inter-American Affairs...
This action, the first of its type in several years, will clear the "dead weight" and "paper" clubs from the Republican roster. Only Republican clubs making positive contributions to Republicanism will have their charters renewed...
...movie of this type, it is a rare director who can resist the temptation to play up the ominous threat of the Nazis. Peter Glenville manages to stay away from this chestnut until the end, when it is consequently more effective. Although his direction is not brilliant, it is consistent, and while the camera work generally dull, there are a few good moments...
There he and helpers turned out parts for a large manufacturer of fans. On the side he invented and patented a new type of plug (first of his 50 inventions), expanded rapidly, went into the manufacture of fighter planes during World War II. At war's end the Occupation purged him briefly, but by 1949 he was again going full blast. Today he makes 28% of Japan's radios, a high percentage of the TV sets, broadcasting equipment, a full line of kitchen appliances, motors, transformers and other electrical supplies...