Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show the inconsistency of the liberal mind, he told a story about Mrs. Roosevelt. In her regular question-and-answer column in the Woman's Home Companion, she had been asked whether she would shake the hand of either Senator McCarthy or Andrei Vishinsky. She said she would shake with both. The next week, she was asked whether she would have shaken with Hitler. She would have, Mrs. Roosevelt answered, in Hitler's early years; but not after he had started his mass killings. Reminding his audience that Vishinsky had been responsible for some mass killings himself, Buckley offered this...
...federal grand jury indicted Greenspun on charges that he violated postal laws by mailing newspapers carrying a column "tending to incite murder or assassination" of McCarthy. Sample lines from the Greenspun column offered in evidence: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end . . . The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest at the hands of some poor, innocent slob whose reputation and life he has destroyed through his ... smear technique." Last week, after a five-day trial, a jury deliberated only two hours and 45 minutes, found Greenspun not guilty. Jurors said later that the Government...
...Hear This. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, alarmed because the air-raid sirens of Omaha, just across the Missouri River, do not provide full coverage, Civil Defense Chairman Ernest Woolsey announced his own plans for alerting everyone by 1) sending up a 7,000-ft. column of red smoke, 2) exploding an aerial fireworks bomb, 3) releasing helium-filled balloons, and 4) spraying Council Bluffs with a mixture of powdered sugar and peppermint, so that the warning could be both smelled and tasted...
...town with the Diaghilev Ballet Russe, promptly abducted Ballet Dancer Olga Koklova (whom he later married), set up house in Barcelona's Hotel Rancini. In a holiday mood, Picasso began turning out canvases in a bewildering variety of styles: a balcony view of Barcelona's Christopher Columbus column; a painting of a Spanish dancer lush enough to hang in a bullfighter's dressing room. Well into his cubist period at the time...
...invite some of the previous directorate and management, or their numerous and powerful allies, to seek reinstatement with no other purpose than to keep us from achieving our goals." For President Alfred E. Perlman, who has turned in a handsome performance at getting the Central back in the profit column, Young asked the stockholders to okay an option deal that would pay Perlman well for his efforts. Under the plan, Perlman would get options to buy 32,000 shares of Central stock at the market price last Oct. 20 (19⅞), when the deal was made. With Central now selling...