Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start, Pravda named nine critics who had made the mistake of criticizing the kind of calendar-art-heavily realistic pictures of Red politicians and soldiers in action-that Soviet bigwigs think uplifting. Some critics, it seemed, had dared to see a little merit in paintings done outside the Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently...
Last week at a meeting in Chicago of 250 of its leaders, the A.M.A. finally swung into action. Hired to run the new education campaign was Clem Whitaker, a stem-winding San Francisco public relations man. An old hand at fighting government-in-medicine (with his pert partner-wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that...
Parents of crippled children have done as much as anyone else to help the cerebral palsied. Working in groups, they have nagged doctors into specializing in the field, set up clinics, wheedled and bullied state legislatures into action. Last week's conference was the organized beginning rather than the climax of their work...
...Jerusalem last week, Supreme Court President Justice Moshe Smoira regarded the petition as having raised an interesting question. Said he: "The action we will take turns on the question of jurisdiction-on whether our court can be considered a successor court to the Sanhedrin or can go into a purely religious question...
...Kirschner '51 has been named president of the Radcliffe chapter of Students for Democratic Action for 1949-50, club officials announced last night. Other officers are Ann Landis '51, vice-president; Katherine Matthews '51, secretary; and Mildred Davidson '52, treasurer...