Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hildebrandt now has a card index of 12,000 of the estimated quarter-million men, women & children who have "disappeared" in eastern Germany since 1945. In another file he keeps 7,000 requests for information on people who have "disappeared...
...provincial governments, grappling with urgent problems of widespread poverty and starvation, cannot afford to build new universities. Thus each year, as more boys & girls come of college age, the demand for higher education grows more frenzied, the passion for degrees more fervent. (Even a "failed B.A." on a calling card is better than no college record at all.) Meanwhile, authorities have been forced to make the examinations ever stiffer. In Bombay alone, more than 50,000 youngsters took the 1949 tests...
Last week Bermúdez' hole card looked more like a trey than an ace. Mexico's oil is not "vital" to U.S. defense, a consultant told the State Department. The consultant was Max W. Ball, a one-time director of the Oil and Gas Division in the Interior Department. Ball reported that Canada, where U.S.-controlled oil companies have already made rich discoveries, "offers more alluring prospects, geologically and politically, than Mexico...
...these reasons, as far as I am concerned, card holding members of the Communist Party are out of bounds as members of the teaching profession. I should not want to be a party to the appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution...
...believe the usual rules as to political parties apply to the Communist party. I am convinced that conspiracy and calculated deceit have been and are the characteristic pattern of behavior of regular Communists all over the world. For these seasons, as far as I am concerned, card holding members of the Communist party are out of bounds as members of the teaching profession. I should not want to be a party to the appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution. But with this single exception which is the unique product...