Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgency was expressed in a pulling together of policy, a tentative reshaping of plans. In Paris, U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon made clear the U.S. attitude toward France and North Africa. All three big Western powers moved to concert policies elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Premier Guy Mollet urged that the Big Three Foreign Ministers meet in Paris to discuss Middle East policies, suggested that the time was coming to ask for a U.N. embargo on the sale of arms either to Arab or Jew. Britain warned both sides that it would take "swift military action" if war broke out across...
Racial issues have forced the cancellation of a Glee Club concert planned for next Tuesday in Tallahassee, Fla., a professor at Florida State University said yesterday. Arrangements were dropped when that institution told the Glee Club it would be unable to guarantee a Negro member of the Club treatment identical to that given white singers...
Officials of the Club denied that the racial question had assumed any importance in the negotiations. They asserted that they had cancelled the concert because of a crowded schedule and because the fee offered by Florida State University was insufficient to cover their additional travelling expenses...
Wiley L. Hausewright, professor of Music at Florida State, who had arranged the concert, last night refuted the Glee Club spokesman. He described the events leading to Florida State officials' decision that including Monroe F. Dowling, Jr., '56 in the concert and reception following would be unwise...
Hausewright said the concert had been dropped by "mutual consent," after Jerome C. Kindred '57, trip manager of the Glee Club, had telephoned him last Thursday and asked whether Dowling would receive treatment equal to that given the other members. Hausewright said that he could not give such assurance, and the next day the Glee Club wired him, telling him that unless it could be given, they would not appear. After conferences with students and officials at Florida State, Hausewright said he wired the Glee Club Saturday, "CONCERT CANCELLED...