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...Governor Crosby (who three weeks ago lost the G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senator, largely because of the tax issue) found little to indicate that honesty is a popular policy. The reports were about the same as ever, e.g., in all of the farm and ranch country of Arthur and Banner Counties, not one taxpayer admitted that he owned...
...Reds. What kind of regime would Castillo Armas' be? Since he marched under the banner of antiCommunism, he will doubtless deal sternly with any real Reds or their sympathizers in the overthrown government of former President Jacobo Arbenz-if he can catch them. Of Arbenz and his Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, Castillo Armas said: "These men are criminals . . . responsible for torturing and killing many people." He froze the assets of the ex-President and 99 of his cohorts, and seized Arbenz' 6,700-acre showplace cotton plantation...
...vigor, new spirit, new determination-even a new direction. In the gilt-and-red-velvet San Carlo Opera House (not air-conditioned), 703 delegates, plus party bigwigs and hangers-on, listened to some 100 speeches over the course of four days. On the top tier of boxes a huge banner read: Il Partito nella Lotta per la Democrazia (The Party in the Struggle for Democracy...
Gartin attacked the voting and attendance record of incumbent Senator James 0. Eastland. Then he startled-and delighted-rednecks and townsfolk alike by suddenly waving the old, tattered banner of white supremacy. The crowd whooped and clapped with electric excitement when Gartin said: "The greatest champion of white supremacy in our generation was Theodore G. Bilbo." He charged that "the great cause of white supremacy suffered a stunning defeat . . ." when Bilbo's right to sit in the U.S. Senate was challenged before his death in 1947. Gartin, who had never hinted that he planned such a campaign, tongue-lashed...
...classmates and sons will form behind the 1929 banner and parade to Soldiers Field, where they will be met by their wives and daughters for the Harvard-Yale baseball game...