Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oakland Tribune (circ. 208,029). Repeatedly, the Guild attempted to organize the Tribune, repeatedly it failed. But last week, trying once more to move to Oakland, the union found strength in a new source: staff discontent with the regime of the Tribune's assistant publisher. William Fife Knowland, 51, sometime (1953-58) Republican leader of the U.S. Senate...
Plant expansion will bound back to the 1957 record rate of $37.8 billion and could show a "startling" 30% jump to a rate of $43 billion by the end of the year, said William F. Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank...
Born. To Air Force Lieut. General William E. Hall, 52, Commanding General, Continental Air Command, and Marguerite ("Maggie") Higgins Hall, 39, Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune: a second child, first daughter; in Washington. Name: Linda Marguerite. Weight...
Skeptic Russell also speaks far more respectfully of medieval scholastics such as Duns Scotus and William of Occam than he does of the modern West's fashionable philosophers, most of whom, in their different ways, have abdicated man's proudest aspiration, which is to know what is what. Marxist and pragmatist agree that truth depends not on what is said, but on who says it-and why and when and with what results-so that for Americans who have accepted the notions of William James and John Dewey, no less than for Nikita Khrushchev, truth...
That's the first prerequisite. The second involves not letting the name William Faulkner cross your mind during the show, for it will only evoke sympathy for Mr. Faulkner and antipathy for Jerry Wald, of Peyton Place fame, who lovingly identified Faulkner with his film, but who cunningly ripped up The Hamlet into many pieces, tossed them into the air, and caught mostly his own chaff...