Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Dismayed by the less-than-favorable publicity she had gotten, and hurt by the U.N.'s lack of appreciation, Mrs. Planas withdrew her offer and decided henceforth to devote more of her time to her church, a group called Spirit Science, of which she is president. In a chapel inside her house, Mrs. Planas conducts seances every Saturday. Three years from now, she said at week's end, "according to the spirits, I will become President of the Philippines...
...Infallibility. Behind Attlee's remarks is the clamor of left-wing press and politicians, who seem unimpressed by the humiliating fact that the Red government has ignored Britain's offer of diplomatic recognition. The New Statesman & Nation, as toplofty and ill-informed as ever, singled out Douglas MacArthur as the chief villain, solemnly assured its readers that he alone would be to blame if a general war broke out in Asia. China specialists in official posts echoed the line. "The British government sees no papal infallibility about MacArthur," snapped one British diplomat. Peevishly he denounced the general...
Safe for a Year. The chief issue of the strike,' the largest major walkout in Guild history, was union arid job security. In the end, the Guild negotiators settled for the same offer that management had made a month ago, which a group of rebel Guilds-men had tried to get the Guild to accept (TIME, Aug. 14). The job-security clause permits arbitration of contested firings, with dismissals to be made only "for good and sufficient cause...
Both CBS and RCA have been waiting more than a month for the Federal Communications Commission to decide whether it will authorize color television. This week CBS gave FCC a nudge, announced that it will offer color television for industrial and scientific uses, over closed telephone lines which are not involved in the color decision...
Last week in Detroit, Federal District Judge Frank A. Picard ordered the stockholders to accept the offer, and accused those who held out for a larger sum of "trying to cause Henry Kaiser's financial eclipse." Said Judge Picard: "Kaiser was the victim of his own paternalism in trying to make the K-F company a success," and was innocent of any "fraud, deceit, collusion or any wrongful...