Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate, our Argentine distributor saw the Director General of Customs, who said that his orders to ban TIME had come down from the Ministry of Finance. Our Buenos Aires Correspondent (at that time, William Johnson) talked to the Subsecretariat of Information and Press, which denied all responsibility for the ban or even knowing about it. Johnson then saw James Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, who promised to help, and Diego Luis Molinari, president of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who got him an appointment with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. The Foreign Minister agreed that "some solution...
Then A.F.L.'s President William Green stomped in to tell the President that A.F.L. would be willing to take a new Taft-Hartley substitute-the Sims bill-with some changes. He came out of the White House shaking his head: "We're willing to give a few inches, but he's not budging...
Veteran Cinemactor Clark Gable, victim of many a make-up man and wardrobe mistress, found that he could also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much...
Using a 36-to-the-minute stroke, Princeton spurted into the lead. Harvard's 130-pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open...
These conditions are not isolated; the Washington conference brought out a lot more of them. And it deserved much more than a cold shoulder from the government. The experts talked about new books like William Vogt's "Road to Survival" and Fair-field Osborn's "Our Plundered Planet," which describe the squeeze population growth is putting on our food supply. They discussed synthesizing food from chemicals, flood control, and atomic power sources, and large-scale projects such as the proposed Columbia Valley Authority. They worked on crosion. But most of all they worried about what one speaker called...