Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bourgeois," recalls one, "and we used the materials we felt safe with. We worked through the Rotary Club, the bar association, the medical association." At first they held a long "civic dialogue" with Batista, aimed at persuading him to hold a fair election. That failed. "Then we tried military action, thinking that a few key leaders here and there would do the trick." Batista got wind of this plot, led by Lieut. Colonel Ramón Barquin, and squashed it handily (TIME, April...
...much-praised Kokoschka with their hesitant drawing which often falls far short of any satisfying conclusion, Kubin's unpretentious drawings are refreshing. Nevertheless, whatever qualifications one makes in Kokoschka's case, his merits become evident when compared with the unhappy commercialism of Paul Kleinschmidt's At the Bar or Oskar Schlemmer's Three Figures...
...than 2,500 speaking invitations (they stream into his office, the mailboxes of his family, and even to Boston's Catholic hierarchy at the rate of 10 to 15 a day). He has accepted 144. He appeared before the American GastroEnterological Association in Colorado Springs and the Arkansas Bar Association at Hot Springs. He spoke to the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Philadelphia, the American Jewish Congress in New York, and he campaigned for successful Democratic Senate Candidate William Proxmire in the Polish districts of Milwaukee...
Neck Out. Outside the Senate, in his speeches around the nation, Jack Kennedy has held steadfastly to his independence. He appeared before the Florida Bar Association, criticized the legal profession for its "apparent indifference" to lawyers who, by the evidence before the McClellan committee, had engaged in "legal racketeering." Last spring he confronted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, criticized it for its stand against foreign...
...Henderson, 82, uninhibited café-society showoff ("I'll relax and behave myself for three days after my wake"), thrice-married widow (her last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...