Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally Currey marched out to join his supporters, charging that Tobin had "packed" the meeting against him. Tobin had given orders to admit only men whose names appeared on a list, presumably of members who had paid their dues. Only six of the 55 people present supported Currey in the voting...
...Next, my distinguished opponent has recently begun to parrot the charges of the Republican irresponsibles that the Administration abandoned China to the Communists . . . But he still must know in his heart, even if he does not admit it, that in the past six years nothing except the sending of an American expeditionary force to China could have prevented ultimate Communist victory...
Only three of the witnesses denied that they had ever been Communists. Among the 18 who refused an answer was Frederic Ewen, who retired from his position as assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College rather than state his politics. He finally did admit, after Senator Ferguson reassured him that he was not incriminating himself, that he was an air-raid warden during World War II. Asked whether he had ever used an alias, another of the 18. German Professor Harry Slochower of Brooklyn College, rejoined: "Do you mean like when you go somewhere with someone? That is an embarrassing...
...hate to admit it," said Editor Slane last week, "but we are using Gallup again." So were many of the other papers which had dropped him in 1948 and later, although Gallup does not have as many papers now as he did then (206 v. 226). Elmo Roper is not doing quite so well in the press either (only 54 papers v. 66 then), but his Sunday broadcasts over NBC are now carried on 90 radio stations v. 75 on CBS in 1948. Crossley says most of his 1948 clients are back...
...tried to obtain decent housing near the University for all of them. This fall, the Office sent each landlady a note reminding them that discriminators were not welcome on the housing lists, but colored students kept returning empty-handed. Acting on its threat the Office has erased landladies who admit purposely drawing a color line from its listings. But such blunt cases are rare. For every bare-faced discriminator, there are ten who protest that "they wouldn't mind a Negro, but their tenants would...