Word: locks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Double Lock. This week began with the majority pressing its counteroffensive. France's Chauvel derided Malik's lies as a case of "pointing to a chair and calling it a table." Then India's Rau made an unexpected move. He suggested that the Council's six small powers form a committee to draft a Korean peace plan; he added that India would stick by her insistence that peace must depend on a withdrawal of the North Koreans to the 38th parallel. Malik, for once, had nothing...
...French's birth. His daughter, Margaret French Cresson (who once wrote a biography of her father-TIME, June 16, 1947), had selected and arranged the show. Among its carved mementos she included some more personal ones: French's mallets and chisels, cuff links, and a golden lock of hair clipped when he was three. Also on show was a life cast of French's sinewy hand, which turned out to be precisely like that of the Lincoln in Washington...
Inside Job. In Vancouver, B.C., Frank Dewey announced that he plans to market a burglarproof lock he designed while in jail...
...Opposed? "Some contend," he said, "that price increases can be prevented by public appeals and threats to invoke price legislation. That hope has already been dashed . . . This legislation before you proposes that we deliberately refuse to lock the stable door until the horse is stolen...
Glad Hand. American Export has steamed a long way from the depression days of 1935, when a syndicate headed by Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm bought it lock, stock and whistle for a skimpy $1,500,000. Incoming Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater found the line loaded to the gunwales with mortgage debt, saw that one of its main assets was its European freight representative, John Francis Gehan. Bustling, ebullient "Jiggs" Gehan, known as "a man who does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South...