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Where consumers once saved up hard cash for the purchases, they now find that U.S. businessmen have taken over much of their budgeting. Most goods and services can be bought on the installment plan, financed at predetermined rates. Autos, appliances, clothes, food, even vacations come on credit and take their...
Member of the Ring. Wrote the board: "The reports of investigation disclosed information considered derogatory ... to the following effect: the employee [Taylor] was a member of a Soviet espionage ring headed by Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, which operated in Washington and New York in the early 1940s. The employee surreptitiously furnished...
Leak. In Springfield. Mass.. the Hampden District Medical Society barred reporters from a special meeting at which doctors voted to double membership dues to increase the society's public-relations program.
Five years ago, in the justified belief that courtesy had become a lost art in the land of the Chevalier Bayard and the Watteau shepherdess, French Psychologist Marcel Ranville organized a new order of French chivalry. L'Ordre de la Courtoisie Française. "Amiability," complained Ranville, "has given...
The group met once or twice each week and had as many as fifteen members. Hicks differs slightly with Furry in describing its activities. Furry tells about a typical meeting as follows: "There was usually some discussion of current events; collections of dues; an "educational" period; and a discussion of...