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When the Shah of Iran visited the U.S. last year, he got a royal welcome that laid the groundwork for a $25 million Export-Import Bank loan. Day by day, through an Iran relay station, the Voice of America beamed an account of the Shah's glad-hand tour. When the Shah returned to his country he decided to continue the Voice relays. For 15 minutes daily since then, the Voice has been heard from the Teheran medium-wave station. Last week the Shah's government silenced the VOA relay broadcasts. The order came a few days after...
...Lloyd Jordan has an intense desire to win games. He hates to lose, and he takes no stock in moral victories. Whether or not he is still coaching here in three or four or five years, the groundwork will be there
Prohibition & Suffrage. New York first sent him to the U.S. Senate in 1914. He backed the principle of selective service before the U.S. entered World War I. In 1920, almost singlehanded, he attempted to secure universal military training. He failed, but his national defense act helped lay the groundwork for the prosecution of World War II. He was defeated for the Senate in 1926. The U.S. was bored with talk of war, and he had also stubbornly opposed both prohibition and woman suffrage...
...With the groundwork laid for schizophrenia, or at feast amnesia, the plot switches to Gaslight: Claudette, it turns out, is the victim of an elaborate frame-up. After using a lot of fancy psychiatric jargon in analyzing the heroine's condition, the script finally reveals the villain as melodrama's oldfashioned "mad fiend." Still unsolved: Who framed Actress Colbert into the role...
Marion Folsom has been a sparkplug of C.E.D. since it was first organized in 1942. He helped lay the groundwork for the Social Security Act of 1935, has made Eastman Kodak's pension and profit-sharing plans so successful that they are imitated by many other U.S. companies. He has also urged that Social Security be expanded to cover everyone and that benefits be raised...