Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charges and countercharges were a torpedo blast to the Un-American Activities Committee, which had taken a new lease on life by proving that its espionage investigation was something more than a "red herring." California's G.O.P. Congressman Richard Nixon beat a quick, strategic retreat via a television broadcast. Said he: "Whittaker Chambers' statement clears Duggan of any implication in the espionage ring." Democratic committee members tore at Mundt like wolves snapping at a fallen fellow. Said Congressman F. Edward Hébert of New Orleans: ". . . a blunder . . . a breach of confidence." Mississippi's loudmouthed old John...
...Fate. In segmented North China, General Fu Tso-yi continued to play a strange sort of game with the Reds. A Communist broadcast had condemned Fu (along with Chiang Kaishek, Sun Fo, most of the new cabinet and others) as a war criminal, deserving a "just penalty." The broadcast added, however, that Fu "could lessen his fate somewhat" if he would immediately surrender Peiping and Tientsin...
...that someone wants to kill me"), the seconds agreed on a small theater attached to the Church of St. Eulalia. They also agreed that besides the seconds and the referee only 40 carefully screened persons (20 Christians and 20 Communists) would be allowed to attend. The Cagliari radio would broadcast the debate throughout the island...
...Surging Pain . . ." One boulder remained in the path of Rakosi's Communist steamroller. Cardinal Mindszenty was facing trial for subversive activity, but last week the Voice of America broadcast to Hungary his latest pastoral letter, which had been banned in Hungary by the Communists. It was subversive, indeed...
...campaign to investigate the University's methods of preparing undergraduate fare. To popularize the drive, the Council decided to devote its annual open meeting to a discussion of the food problem. Dean Bender was invited to answer questions and present the administration's viewpoint, and the entire affair was broadcast over WHRV. On the surface, this open meeting was an excellent idea--but as it was actually handled, it virtually smothered any organized campaign to do a thorough probing job into the University Kitchens...