Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earnest, persuasive Communist organizers spread out through Caracas slums last week while Red intellectuals addressed classrooms and civic clubs. Their aims: trebling party membership, raising a $150,000 fund to finance party newspapers, and running an intensive "educational, political and ideological campaign among the Venezuelan masses." At a round-table meeting in Caracas, Communist Boss Gustavo Machado sat down cheerily with the leaders of Venezuela's four other parties. His aim: to get an important hand in naming a single unity candidate for President in the November election. Pouring into the political vacuum left by the January overthrow...
Infiltrating. Party membership stands at 26,000, plus a sizable number of secret members who are busily infiltrating the other parties. Cells are working hard in schools, unions and virtually every civic, professional and business group. A member of the Caracas city council is a Communist. So is a member of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the vice president of the Student Federation, the dean of journalism at Caracas' Central University...
With deficits since 1952 and a loss last year of $1,000,000, the decision to sell the 118-year-old Times-Star was made reluctantly by Publisher David S. Ingalls, 59, lawyer, civic leader, grandson of Founder Taft, and manager of the late Senator Taft's 1952 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Only member of the Taft family opposing the sale was 80-year-old ex-Publisher Hulbert Taft. At the decisive meeting, the old man wept...
...Butter-nut Coffee, which is packed there. After the orchestra swung through Freberg's lighthearted, tuneful spoof of Oklahoma!-type musicals, even skeptics who had come to hoot remained to hum. The mayor is recommending the adoption of the rollicking Whatta They Got in Omaha? as the civic anthem, Capitol Records has put out a recording with I Look in Your Face and I See Omaha on the flip side. More important, from Freberg's point of view, Omaha! has already sold a tremendous lot of Butter-nut Coffee...
...Pittsburgh, fellow of Yale University's Yale Corporation; of a myocardial infarction; in Pittsburgh. Marrying Sarah Mellon of the banking Mellon family, Scaife stayed with his family firm, became a vice president of T. Mellon & Sons, and member of a dozen big corporate boards, was one of the civic leaders who helped carry out the postwar redevelopment of the city's famed Golden Triangle...