Word: collard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
...equal the New York Herald Tribune's wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith, who dealt with the convention like an athletic contest, sprinkled his copy with sports allusions and such gems as his description of Happy Chandler's campaign grin ("A hawg-jowl smile, meaty and succulent, with collard greens on the side"), Governor Frank Clement's coiffure ("He wears a small round part in his dark hair"), and political pundits ("sports experts with their shirttails tucked...
...seat of the uproar was a familiar but far from extinct political volcano: the conflict over state-school funds between Socialists and anticlericals on the one hand and Belgian Catholics on the other. Last year, when the present Liberal-Socialist government came into office, Socialist Leo Collard, the new Minister of Education, quickly made it clear that he intended to favor secular schools in the allotment of state education subsidies. In the previous Catholic government the principle of equal treatment had been applied to state schools, with some 712,000 pupils, and Catholic schools, with...
Shouts & Rumbles. The Catholics began to worry. When Minister Collard proposed last December to reduce the parochial-school subsidy by $10 million, to $82 million (v. $170 million for the secular schools) the Catholics' worry grew into ire. "I found that parents in some cities had no choice but to send their children to a Catholic school because there were not enough state schools," Collard -said. "It was our duty to open more state schools . . ." Last week, when the government invoked and won a vote of confidence on its subsidy proposals, Catholics all over Belgium rallied into protest action...
Clubs & Clangs. "Down with Collard!" the crowd began shouting. Rocks, oranges, tomatoes and firecrackers flew at the police as the demonstrators tried to converge in the city's center. Near the North Station mounted police walked their horses into the screaming demonstrators, and fire hoses were turned against the crowd. Police used truncheons and rifle butts to break up group after group...