Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wepman told the whole story. Harlow sat placidly by, reading from the Oxford Book of English Verse and icily ignored the whole undignified affair, although he looked up at one time and said coldly: "He speaks for himself, not for me." Harlow himself talked only after the police accused him of murdering for gain. Nothing, he announced indignantly, could have been further from the truth-he had killed his mother simply because he hated her and killed his father because he was under Mrs. Fraden's thumb...
...other seven members of the committee, elected after a week of campaigning highlighted by the "Balzotti Affair," will hold the following posts: Gibson Gerry, secretary-treasure; Michael S. Robertson and Henry S. Heifitz, entertainment; Robert Dubinsky and Phil Arena, refreshments; Stephen L. Singer, publicity; and William Owens, staging...
After the Mamaroneck affair, the State Department passed word to Prío to be more careful and stop abusing U.S. hospitality. Too busy with his plotting, Prío brushed the hints aside. When the blow fell last week he had just returned from a meeting of opposition leaders in Mexico at which plans for an uprising were reportedly discussed. Prío, whose democratic but graft-ridden government collapsed in a few hours in March 1952, seemed angriest that his arrest would give "comfort and satisfaction to a dictator." If brought to trial and convicted, he could...
...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...
...Truman accepts the bid, he would break the historical precedent he himself followed in the Harry Dexter White affair. Former Presidents in the past have refused to submit their administrations to questioning, believing it an infringement of the independence granted the Executive in the Constitution...