Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editions, at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.), in competition with the Bulletin. It will drop its pallid "weekend edition" (which goes to press on Friday night), remold its politics to an "independent" line closer to Annenberg's own views. Said one Annenberg aide: "In the Delaware Valley, with 5,200,000 people, there's room for such a paper." The new management also moved swiftly to cut the payroll, and by week's end had laid off 77 staffers, including 16 newsmen and some 30 truck-drivers. To News employees it was an old story. Just...
...four hours the debate droned on. One by one, Teamster partisans pleaded for charity, invoked in lofty prose the memory of bleeding feet at Valley Forge and treachery among the Twelve Apostles. It was all useless. Word came, too, that even cocky Jimmy Hoffa had tried surreptitiously to work out a last-minute deal with George Meany, but Jimmy had been too busy to settle on a date. He was busy, in fact, in Manhattan federal court, where he was standing trial on wiretapping charges. (Teamster ex-President Dave Beck was tied up in Seattle, where he was on trial...
...earlier warned that a tax cut was unlikely, most of the preceding speeches had been full of the sort of wishful thinking that the N.A.M.'s members apparently never tire of. Speakers argued for tax reductions and less Government spending, against interstate commerce regulations and the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Lillie of the Valley...
Roosevelt's first position on the CRIMSON was secretary, a traditional sophomore post. In those days a comic poster was printed playing with the names of the newly elected officers. F.D.R.'s read: "For Secretary, Rosy Rosenfelt, The Lillie of the Valley...