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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital affairs of the U.S." Morse even suggested that a TIME story quoting an anonymous U.S. official's rueful jest about dividing up Bolivia-a quote in TIME'S Latin American edition that was used as provocation for riots in Bolivia (TIME, March 16)-was a sinister attempt to cater to Brazilian designs on Bolivian territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...among other things, Wayne has made her out to be a liar and dishonest." Next day Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later verified it), called Mrs. Luce's physician in New York in an attempt to find out whether she had ever been under psychiatric care. Dirksen, quoting the doctor, said: "She-isn't and wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...letters charged that Pusey had overlooked arguments for the loyalty oath, "in his understandable zeal to defend academic freedom." Citing a distinction between "conspirators" and intellectual "heretics," the petition claimed that the former attempt to "cut short free exchange of opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters Back Loyalty Oath In Loan Act | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

...attempt to dominate the state schools and destroy their autonomy, the proposed move is a violation of the agreement that state schools would maintain their freedom and independence if they accepted the act--an understanding without which the act would not have passed. It represents the perpetual tendency of some Senators and their confreres to attempt to dominate everything they can get their hands on and should serve as a warning to those who have claimed that the acceptance of Federal funds need not constitute a surrender of freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Senate and the Schools | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, May 4--Former House investigator Baron I. Shacklette said today an attempt was made to "bug" his hotel room the same week last summer that he was eavesdropping by hidden microphone on Bernard Goldfine...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: MacLeish Merits Pulitzer Prize For Broadway Production 'J.B.'; Truman Not to Visit White House | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

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