Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he drove off to see the U.S. World Trade Fair at Manhattan's Coliseum near by, Ike bade goodbye to Mrs. V. Beaumont Allen, Manhattan philanthropist, who donated $3,000,000 for Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater, and who, like the President, had suffered a coronary attack. Nobody heard exactly what Ike told her, but apparently it had something to do with the kind of medical care he got during his illness. A moment later she dashed over to the President's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, 78, and bussed him heartily. Shouted Ike gaily: "Tell...
Vacationing in the Caribbean, TIME Associate Editor George G. Daniels spent three days in the Dominican Republic, where Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is tensely on guard against any attack by Caribbean revolutionaries. His report...
Though it failed to block the lectures, this campaign was not without its effects. The Harvard Administration was quite thoroughly alienated by what it considered a vindictive and useless attack. Edwin Ginn '18, an agent of the Harvard Fund, dramatically resigned his post in protest against Oppenheimer's appointment. A group of undergraduates revived a small organization called the Harvard Athenaeum in support of Veritas and later the Committee gave financial support to the conservative review Fortnightly...
...hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in twenty or thirty years. To win we will need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtones and unheard-of concessions. The capitalistic countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist...
When asked recently about the booklet, Bunche had this to say: "A few years ago Roosevelt got up a mimeographed booklet of 40 or 50 pages attacking me, and has been peddling it ever since--mailing it out broadside all over the country. I've heard these charges before, and pay no attention to them. I don't believe in taking a defensive attitude toward an attack of this kind. The best defense is the statement of the Loyalty Board itself, which went to unprecedented lengths in stating that there was absolutely no quesion about my loyalty. This...