Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...couple from Nebraska stopped by our Mexico City news bureau on the Paseo de la Reforma last week to discuss the Korean war effort. Said the husband: "We came down here on a summer vacation trip-the longest distance we've ever been away from home. We still make sure that we read TIME every week, and the Korean war news has us worried. Do you think we should go home and try to help...
...House bill gave the President almost all he wanted-power to requisition goods and facilities, assign priorities, control credits, make loans up to $2 billion for production of war materials-and some things he did not particularly want -stand-by power to establish at his discretion wage and price ceilings, order rationing. The bill would also penalize hoarders with a maximum $10,000 fine and a year in jail...
...Communist groups in the U.S. to proclaim themselves treasonous enterprises of a foreign power (the obvious alternative would be to go underground). It would require registration of the Communist Party and all its members, and of Communist-front organizations and their officers. It would bar Communists from Government jobs, make it a crime for them even to "make application" for passports. Organizations declared to be party-line would have to label their mail "Disseminated by -, a Communist organization." A member of a Communist outfit would be subject to imprisonment and fines if the organization refused to register and he remained...
...degree, Orville Hubbard brooked no opposition. He made his fire chief pay a $973 bill for thimbles which Orville passed out to housewives in his campaigning ("Here's a bill," said Orville. "It's customary to pay these to hold . . . jobs."), and then he had the chief make his whole department hose down the streets one morning at 3 a.m.; this made the chief so unpopular with the firemen that he had to quit. When the Dearborn Press turned against the mayor, Publisher William Klamser's personal property assessment was jacked...
...Bing Crosby. Bing, a pheasant-hunting crony of Welker's for 15 years, took time out from his Idaho vacation to sing the praises of Welker Republicanism. Crosby spread a Republican dinner for his pal, saying he hoped to "deduct it from my income tax, and make the Democrats pay for it." Said Crosby...