Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nanking, meanwhile, amid vain attempts at secrecy, Foreign Minister Wu Te-chen conferred separately with the U.S., British, French and Soviet ambassadors. His purpose was not made clear, but it was obvious that China was asking for international mediation of the-civil...
...which the "New Christians" continued to worship in their old faith. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella published an edict: "There yet remains and is obvious the great harm which has come and still comes to Christians from . . . conversation and communication . . . with the Jews. [They] have made it clear that they would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes ... we have decided to command all of the aforesaid Jews, men and women, to leave our Kingdoms and never...
...soon the party was on the run before the rightist barrage. Last October APRA was outlawed. Three weeks later, General Manuel Odria seized the government, ordered the immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last fortnight, it was clear at once that the whole Aprista party-including Haya-was really on trial for Grana's death. "Flushed by a dead man!" cried a Peruvian last week on hearing that Haya had turned up at the Embassy...
Last week as he prepared to hand over his job to Father Laurence J. McGinley S.J., of New York, Father Gannon made it clear that he still hopes Fordham will have no part of plans (such as are called for by the President's Commission on Higher Education) for still more greatly increased college enrollments. His remarks ended with a typical Gannon snapper: "Instead of accepting more & more as the number of applicants increase, we intend to screen our students with more & more care . . . Unless we have this type of aristocracy . . . our Jeffersonian democracy will soon be a Russian...
...listens-and to what-on U.S. radio? A new book to be published next week, Radio Listening in America, (Prentice-Hall, $2.50), helps to clear up some of the mystery, and to highlight some listeners' habits. A few of the book's findings, based on a 1947 survey...