Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peace & Relaxation." In one cable Communist Chou angrily denounced the U.S. for "seizing" Formosa and "manufacturing" a mutual-security treaty with the Nationalists there (TIME, Dec. 13). "To convict foreign spies caught in China is China's internal affair," he said coldly. "There is no justification at all for the United Nations to try to interfere. . . No amount of clamor on the part of the U.S. can shake China's just stand of exercising its own sovereign rights...
...split? In fashioning next year's domestic program for Congress, the possibilities for friction had seemed greater than at the foreign-policy meeting. But Senate Leader William Knowland intoned that the talks had been "constructive and harmonious." Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin reported that the whole affair was "like the cooing of doves...
...Ward Society and was arrested in Boston for selling the issue of his American Mercury that contained the story of a casual prostitute called Hatrack (she took her customers to cemeteries*), Mencken retained Hays. When the Countess Cathcart was denied entry to the U.S. because she had had an affair with the Earl of Craven (the Earl was admitted without a fuss), Hays was at her side. In his autobiography, City Lawyer, Hays recalls that when the Countess was brought before a deportation board of inquiry, she asked: "But haven't you men ever committed adultery?" The board, Hays...
Summer emphasized that he was not legally bound to accept the tickets, but that he did not want to create ill will. "The affair has been most unsatisfactory from my standpoint throughout," he said, "quite unlike a successful similar experiment last summer...
Last week the FBI said it would investigate for possible violations of civil rights. Otherwise, Mount Dora seemed to be trying to forget the whole affair. The Platts had moved into a cabin out of town, their children were out of school and as far as anyone could tell, no one besides Editor Reese seemed to care...