Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested changes are twofold. The first involves new procedures for closing Senate debate by a two-thirds majority of those present after two days of debate, or by a simple majority of those present after fifteen days. The anti-filibuster drive is headed primarily by men who fear the power of Southern conservatives in blocking civil rights legislation and who are willing to abandon a long-standing Senate tradition of talkativeness to achieve their civil rights objectives...
...board of monitors and by U.S. Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigators, Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa last summer bought a bright stunt thought up by his lawyers*: Why not set up an investigating commission of his own? Promptly named as chairman of the Teamsters' three-member Anti-Racketeering Commission: Ohio Insuranceman George H. Bender, sometime Republican Congressman (1939-48; 1951-54) and U.S. Senator (1955-57), memorable to televiewers as the boar-shaped man at the 1952 Republican Convention who made himself conspicuous by ringing a cowbell at every mention of Senator Robert A. Taft...
...book-loving Soviet public, reported Moscow radio proudly, had gobbled up every copy of a new edition of the works of Mark Twain. Included in the twelve-volume set, which will be published over the next three years: unnamed, unspecified "anti-imperialist pamphlets," not found, claimed the broadcast, in the decadent, bourgeois editions published by Twain's countrymen...
Actually, Bishop Dibelius is merely rolling with the punch of stepped-up anti-church activity. The Evangelical Church still regards Youth Dedication to the state as at least lip service to atheism, and hence a sin. But hardheaded Otto Dibelius and other church leaders in East Germany decided they must henceforth emphasize the church's readiness to forgive; youngsters who submit to the Red ceremonies but repent of their action will be admitted to confirmation at the discretion of the local minister...
Died. Lion Feuchtwanger, 74, Munich-born novelist (Proud Destiny, Josephus, The Pretender, Jephta and His Daughter, This Is the Hour), anti-Nazi who escaped from a concentration camp dressed as a woman and made his way to the U.S. during World War II; in Los Angeles...