Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the Breach. The Russians did not have to listen to such words of protest often. Whenever unpleasantness threatened, an American leaped into the breach. When Dwight Macdonald, editor of the anti-Communist magazine Politics, asked Fadeev at a press conference what had happened to several Soviet writers who have disappeared, Daily Worker Columnist Howard Fast jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty...
Last week Judge Joseph W. Vickers threw out Russian Exile Stravinsky's damage suit (headlined the New York Daily News: IGOR MORTIS), but added sympathetically that a suit against Leeds for breach of contract might be more in order: "The court feels that a composer has the right to prevent his name from being attached to a composition which he did not write...
...cricket. When the rule was adopted in 1917, its purpose was to allow two-thirds of the Senate to prevent a filibuster; the fact that later on the Dixiecrats joyfully discovered a loephole is unfortunate, yet Barkley's effort to plug that loophole seems in no way a breach of ethics...
Last week a militant group of U.S. clergymen and laymen met in Washington and set out to raise $1,000,000 "to resist the declared purposes of the Roman Catholic Church further to breach the wall of separation between church and state...
...consulting lawyers to see if United World can breach its contract and if United World is acting under a collusive agreement with the University Theatre...