Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become by far the biggest bloc in the new A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...form a counter power bloc, the Teamsters tried first to squeeze into the I.U.D...
...this uncommitted, neutralist bloc, Khrushchev and Bulganin offered a new message: You don't have to apply for membership in our club; we have already enrolled you and ask no dues. Want fac tories? We will help build them. Have you opponents? We will hate them...
...roll-call, the United States is weakening the confidence of its allies at the United Nations. After two months of deadlock over the essentially unimportant question of filling a non-permanent Security Council seat, the U.S. is still backing the Philippines against Yugoslavia--the candidate of both the Soviet bloc and much of Asia and Western Europe. This policy of trying to twist each minor decision into a tactical triumph over Russia may show immediate results, but in the long run the U.S. is losing a much more strategic victory--the continuing respect of its U.N. allies...
Beyond the constitutional arguments, Talmadge bares his teeth and growls the loudest at the NAACP. He particularly dislikes NAACP-inspired bloc voting which he considers "unfair" election practice. (Talmadge himself has Georgia voting districts so rigged that although his choice for governor in 1954 won only 36.6 percent of the popular vote, he was a landslide winner under the state's county unit system.) But bloc voting is only one of the NAACP's crimes. They are also opposed to poll-taxes, have a powerful lobby, and hold parties where whites are sometimes seen dancing with Negroes. The NAACP...