Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oddly enough, the boycott bore a union-made label. As a business agent for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, burly Charles E. Leadman bosses the 2,000-member Local 371 at American Viscose Corp., biggest local employer. "Chuck" Leadman and Plant Manager A. G. McVay teamed up last fall to lead moderates against massive resistance, were prevented from getting the school reopened on an integrated basis by Governor J. Lindsay Almond's school-locking order. Soon after, Leadman was outraged when the Negroes rejected his demands that they postpone their applications. "I had to give...
...speeches and on TV, Castro rambled loquaciously on. He said that the U.S. role in the 1898 Spanish-American War was merely belated intervention after the Cubans had effectively beaten Spain. He attacked demagoguery and nepotism (his brother Raul is chief of the armed forces). He saw to it that Captain Jesus Sosa Blanco-the Batista officer convicted of mass murder in a circus trial in Havana's Sports Palace-got a new hearing. The judges were the same and so was the verdict: death by firing squad. Counting Sosa Blanco, 14 "war criminals" were executed last week, bringing...
...average of $25 million yearly, more than Bolivian income tax payers themselves contribute to their treasury. Washington's remittance is now expected on a regular basis. Said Finance Minister Eufronio Hinojosa last week: "The 1959 budget will be perfectly balanced." Then he added hastily: "Including, of course, American aid to cover the 30% deficit...
...future attack by manned bombers on the North American continent, U.S. defenders would hope to engage the enemy with fighters and missiles far to the north of the U.S., over the Canadian Arctic. Last week, in a grave speech to the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cleared the way for an almost total merger of Canada's air defenses with those...
...Arrow, whose production abort will cost the Canadian taxpayers some $500 million all told, Canada will rely for antibomber defense during the next few years on U.S.-built Bomarc missiles. Canada will share the cost of launching sites with the U.S., control them jointly through the North American Air Defense Command. Later, NORAD-controlled U.S. fighters may be stationed in Canadian Arctic bases...