Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cooperative Commonwealth Federation has shrunk in an era of contentment and prosperity, seems unlikely to add many seats to the 22 it held in the last Parliament. The Social Credit party, a depression-born agrarian movement that turned right with prosperity, now controls the governments of Alberta and British Columbia, plans a major push in Eastern Canada this year to build up its Parliamentary bloc of 15. All of the opposition is encouraged by one Canadian political trend. Of the six provincial governments controlled by the Liberals as recently as 1944, four have been unseated...
...Senate Internal Security Subcommittee dusted off and released again some 1951 testimony against Norman. The old testimony, plus paraphrases from a "U.S. Government executive-agency security report" read into the record by Committee Counsel Robert Morris, showed that Norman had been active in a Communist study group at Columbia University in 1938, when he was 28. Later, the record showed, he had held office in the pro-Communist American Friends of the Chinese People; once in 1942 he flashed his diplomatic credentials before an FBI agent to try to rescue some Marxist documents in the possession of a left-wing...
...Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close to $50,000 a year." Though a programing consultant, and possibly a panelist on a new fall show, Van Doren will also keep plugging in his $4,400-a-year teaching job at Columbia University. And he may get other income. Only last week the House Appropriations Committee disclosed that Van Doren picked up $75 last year by writing a piece for the U.S. Information Agency. Its title: "What Is American Culture...
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony is so called because, after 15 bars of charming, tinkling music, the whole orchestra suddenly crashes into a shattering fortissimo chord. But as played in a British Columbia album, the symphony contains several surprises not in Haydn's score, including snatches from old-style Chicago jazz records, an ocarina solo and a septet of bottles-five hot-water and two beer...
...this season the Californians have run up a record of 8-2-2 including two losses to the University of British Columbia and two victories over Yale, the latter by 31-12 and 13-0 scores...