Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marry in Haste. In Old Saybrook, Conn., after explaining that he was rushing to his wedding when arrested for speeding, Kerry Cannon was fined $50 when the judge discovered that the wedding was six months away...
...granddaddy of them all, Rhode Island's 91-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green, was certain that such an attack by a national chairman on fellow Democrats was "most unusual and, I believe, completely without precedent." A member of the National Committee himself, Green sternly warned Butler not to use his office as "a gun pit from which to fire on Democratic candidates...
...behind the headlines the U.S., far from being outraged, was making an effort unthinkable in the days of the old French Fourth Republic to support De Gaulle's drive to restore French influence. At the discussion level in high Administration circles were proposals...
Scandal-starved Washington cocked an expectant ear for a star-spangled shocker when, two months ago, a House subcommittee set out to find out whether retired military officers were being hired by defense contractors to use undue influence on old friends and former colleagues in the Pentagon. Last week the House Armed Services Investigation subcommittee sat down to take testimony, produced only a couple of stars, few spangles, no scandal...
Under the old system, business transactions and-government appropriations were made in astronomical figures (current French budget in old francs: 6,189,000,000,000). But the changeover poses new problems. Despite plenty of warnings, some Frenchmen are sure to write checks after July 15, the changeover day, without marking N.F. (New Francs) in front of the figures. Shopkeepers may try to raise prices under the guise of rounding off the price of an article that cost 450 old francs to a simple five francs in the new currency. To prevent this, the government for a time is requiring...