Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Younger herself survived a nine-month siege of polio in 1951.) She believes she won the primary on "a moral issue." The man she defeated: State Senator Jack Tenney, onetime chairman of the California Un-American Activities Committee, the violently anti-Semitic 1952 vice-presidential candidate on the Christian Nationalist ticket...
Since everyone in Massachusetts knew that blue-blooded Senator Leverett Saltonstall and Governor Christian Herter would be endorsed for reelection, Republicans meticulously printed a timetable ("10 a.m. come to order, 10:50 a.m. nominate Herter . . .") for their pre-primary convention. Last week, as the convention met at Worcester, both Saltonstall and Herter were nominated only minutes behind schedule, and the convention fell behind the clock badly only once because of a squabble over a nomination' for state treasurer...
...Sure Thing. For a while he did. He became a frontman for the Reds: chairman of the East zone puppet Christian Democratic Union, and the non-Communist Foreign Minister of East Germany. He sold out his people, signing away to Poland all Germany east...
Under the Nazis, the German press was rigidly controlled by Hitler's ministry of information. Last fall, when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian-Democratic government announced plans to set up its own ministry of information, the free press of Germany howled objections. Political reporters banded together, passed a resolution charging that information ministries are "unusual in democratic states and, [if set up in Germany, might] strengthen tendencies aiming at infringement of the freedom and independence of the press...
John Owen Beaty, head of the S.M.U. English department and a member of the faculty for 34 years, had charged that the University was being taken over by what he called "powerful, non-Christian elements in our population." In a pamphlet entitled "How to Capture a University," Beaty had asked, "Are the minds of our students to be guided by B'nal Writh... or by Soviet Moscow... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel...