Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of candidates, but in the polls of Nov. 21 and Dec. 21, some 4,000 delegates would have to be elected to China's National Assembly and its Legislative Yuan. Constitutional government was being inaugurated on schedule. Last week, China, just like Western models, had ward heelers, slush funds, wire pullers, whispering campaigns, vested interests and a sprinkling of high-minded amateurs...
Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward cut their down payments to 10% and extended payment time on the balance to 18 months. But the credit agencies were more conservative. Said John J. Schumann Jr., whose General Motors Acceptance Corp. last year advanced $411 million on the sale of automobiles and other GM products: "It behooves . . . banks and other financing agencies to use their heads as never before." At a meeting of the District of Columbia Bankers' Association the Federal Reserve Board's M. S. Szymczak warned that if bankers permitted the credit structure to get topheavy...
...only House debate hold this week, a Kirkland House due gained a unanimous decision over Winthrop last Tuesday. Richard Stone '50 and Robert L. Fischelis '50 Kirkland argued the affirmative of the topic" "Resolved, That the Taft-Hartley Law should be repeated," while Sydney Lyon '49, john Wood ward '40, and Owen B. Howard '49, defended the negative...
VIPERS' TANGLE (288 pp.) - François Mauriac, translated by Warre B. Wells -Sheed & Ward...
...Therese is the second volume in the series; the first was Woman of the Pharisees (TIME, Oct. 21, 1946). Vipers' Tangle, now reissued by Sheed & Ward, will later be included by Holt as part of its uniform edition...