Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Therefore be it resolved that the Stoughton Post of the V.F.W. condemn the abusive and insulting treatment of General Zwicker by Senator McCarthy and [express] its gratitude to [Zwicker] for the valiant service he has rendered on the battlefield against the enemies of our democracy...
...Black and white reaction was mixed. Governor Baring himself gives the plan, at best, a 50-50 chance; Kenya's white settlers, some of whom believe that the best way to fight the Mau Mau is to "hang the Kikuyu tribe in batches of 25," condemn it as "immoral" and "appeasement...
...picture flays the social excesses of the French aristocracy, exposing lives of vapid insincerity and vicious lack of purpose. Director and co-scenarist Jean Renoir is too subtle to stage a Gallicorgy after the style exemplified by Quo Vadis?. He prefers to draw out indignation, letting the characters condemn themselves by treating infidelity, indelicacy and even brutality as daily steps toward a Good Life whose only end is to escape boredom. Not that decadence is portrayed as innately vile. Rather, its syrupy charm cloys, smothering its cultists' sensibilities until stock motions, reactions and conversations replace emotions...
...organization here in this state to find a place to meet in order to raise money for a tottering newspaper. The American Legion had some part in this. When this organization found a meeting place, phone calls and city and state inspecting committees suddenly appeared in an attempt to condemn the auditorium. Although procedures used to prevent the meeting from taking place were entirely lawful in regard to the letter, the spirit of the law certainly showed signs of dry-rot. This and many other incidents demonstrate that our traditional liberties are in grave danger. . . . Alan F. Sawyer...
...Spanish side, the Sultan's representative is pliant, unventuresome, 43-year-old Caliph Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehed. cousin of the exiled sultan and nephew of the new. The Spanish have persuaded the caliph to condemn the French change of rulers, but he is also believed to have secretly telephoned his congratulations to the new. French-backed Sultan...