Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran Warren Austin made a ripsnorting rebuttal. Shaking his forefinger and waving his arms, he disdained any deal or proposal by the aggressors, denounced the Russian for "slander . . . obvious and shameless travesties...
...Died. Austin Eugene ("Cap") Lathrop, 84, Alaskan multimillionaire (coal mines, canneries, newspapers, radio stations, etc.), stiff-necked opponent of Alaskan statehood; in Suntrana, Alaska. Born on a Michigan farm, Lathrop made his first big Alaskan profits (and was nicknamed Cap) when he bought into a two-masted schooner and tapped the rich Gold Rush traffic. He developed Alaska's biggest coal mine; built its biggest radio station; became, reputedly, its richest citizen...
...Workers, the Marine Cooks and Stewards-canvassed busily for "peace" signatures. U.A.W. Communists in the big Ford local circulated petitions on the assembly lines. At the Kaiser-Frazer plant, angry U.A.W. unionists flung one peace collector out bodily. Earnest youths turned up on campuses in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. In some states, impatient cops, out of sheer exasperation, arrested canvassers on charges of disorderly conduct...
...resolution also authorized use of the U.N. flag in Korea "concurrently with the flags of the various nations participating." After the meeting Trygve Lie presented Warren Austin, the U.S. delegate, with the very U.N. flag that had flown over Ralph Bunche's mission while he was mediating the Palestine war. Lie told Austin that he wished Douglas MacArthur would fly it over his headquarters until there was peace in Korea. Said Lie: "I hope it will bring him success...
Yugoslavia's Bebler, ignoring the fact that his own country might be next on the Kremlin's list of victories, countered Austin in high, musical French. Bebler offered a weaseled resolution that the Council merely: 1) renew its call for an end of hostilities, 2) institute a "procedure of mediation," and 3) invite North Korea to send U.N. a spokesman to tell its side of the story...