Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earnestly attentive to their husbands. What he said to them, although not new, was off the record. The burden of his speech was the Administration's friendly feeling towards U.S. business, a point which he made without humbleness and without apology for the past history of the Fair Deal. The evening ended in a brisk flurry of hand clapping, and Charles Sawyer drove glowingly home to his Palm Beach apartment...
...years that had then passed since expropriation, Mexico's aging equipment ingeniously held together with baling wire had barely managed to keep established wells producing; hardiy anything had been done in the way of new exploration and drilling. With cabinet rank to help him make needed changes and deal firmly with the high-riding, left-wing oil union, Bermúdez brought in 51 producing wells in 1947 and 83 more the following year. In 1949, Pemex added 180 new wells to bring national production to an estimated 60 million barrels for the year...
...Boxing, in the sense of giving and parrying light blows ... is lawful for the purpose of exercise and recreation . . But it is difficult to reconcile prizefighting, as we have it today, with Catholic principles of morality. For, undoubtedly, the purpose of the fighters is to deal each other severe blows, and if possible to score a 'knock-out.' That grave injuries frequently come to those who follow prizefighting as a career is well known from experience...
...composing some, teaching a good deal; pupils come to him from all over the world. Above all, he had never neglected his cello, or the Bach suites for unaccompanied cello which he lifted from musical obscurity 50 years ago and brought to their true glory by the lofty simplicity of his playing...
Died. Henry Justin Allen, 81, onetime editor (Topeka State Journal), governor of Kansas (1919-23) and U.S. Senator (1929-30), longtime foe of the New Deal; in Wichita, Kans. G.O.P. publicity director during the 1928 campaign, Allen was appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Charles Curtis...